Lesson #1: More Tell - All of it (AKA: Motel Audit)
Say three brothers go out of town and to a motel where the clerk says,
" We have one room left but it will cost you 30 dollars". OK , so they each
ante up 10 dollars for the night. After they left the counter the manager
comes by and says, "Hey don't you remember there is a special tonight and
it's only 25 dollars, not 30 dollars". So the clerk takes 5 dollars out of
the cash register and off he goes to the room. On the way however he
thinks--- "Hey they don't know it's only 25 dollars, I'll just give them
each one dollar back and keep 2 dollars for my trouble." So he gives each
man back one dollar and keeps two for himself. Here's the weird part: That
means that each of the men paid 9 dollars a piece for their night's stay
(10 dollars - 1 dollar) but the clerk only kept 2 dollars for himself. If
you take 9 and multiply it by 3 you get 27 : add the 2 dollars the clerk kept
and you get (30 dollars??) No 29 dollars. What happened to the one dollar????
If you can't find it, the answer can be found at
Lesson #1: More Tell - All of it (AKA: Motel Audit)
Say three brothers go out of town and to a motel where the clerk says,
" We have one room left but it will cost you 30 dollars". OK , so they each
ante up 10 dollars for the night. After they left the counter the manager
comes by and says, "Hey don't you remember there is a special tonight and
it's only 25 dollars, not 30 dollars". So the clerk takes 5 dollars out of
the cash register and off he goes to the room. On the way however he
thinks--- "Hey they don't know it's only 25 dollars, I'll just give them
each one dollar back and keep 2 dollars for my trouble." So he gives each
man back one dollar and keeps two for himself. Here's the weird part: That
means that each of the men paid 9 dollars a piece for their night's stay
(10 dollars - 1 dollar) but the clerk only kept 2 dollars for himself. If
you take 9 and multiply it by 3 you get 27 : add the 2 dollars the clerk kept
and you get (30 dollars??) No 29 dollars. What happened to the one dollar????
If you can't find it, the answer can be found at
