A brainteaser for the smart people?

Question

Here is a brain teaser i need the answer to. Three friends decided to order a pizza. The delivery person tells them the bill is $30. So, each person pays $10.

When the delivery person returns to the pizza shop, the cashier says that there was a mistake. The bill should have been $25 not $30.

The cashier gives the delivery person 5 $1 coins to take back to the friends. On the way back, the delivery person realized that the $5 could not be split three ways so he decides to keep $2 as a tip.

The friends paid a total of $30 ($10 each), They got $1 back each. This means that the three friends paid $9 each for the pizza which totals $9 each for the pizza. The delivery person has $2. This gives a total of $29.

Who has the other $1?

Answer 1

LOL....grrrr

Answer 2

No money is missing. The pizza cost $25 . The friends got back $1 each, so its $3.The delivery person took $2. If you total all that up, its $30. Therefore , no one has the other $1.

Answer 3

it is selling price and cost price thing

who will never know where the h**l is 1$ if u look in to the problem in this way.

just read organees approach he/she  is right on instead of 27 it should be 28 then u will come to conclusion.

she just correct 27 to 28 good.

Answer 4

there's no money missing because 25 divided by 3 is 8.3. sorry that's all i can work out for now. it's very complicated

Answer 5

u ate it  

Answer 6

the store

Answer 7

Its in the wording, which is wrong. We start with 25, which was the end price of the pizza. The friends all got back, in total 3 dollars. If we add their 3 dollars to the 25, we have 28. If you then add in the 2 dollars in tips the greedy, stealing delivery person awarded himself you get 30. So, in conclusion, no money is missing. We can all go home folks.

Answer 8

This is a very tricky as well as complicated question. I asked my Math teacher this thing and she said it was senseless as the three friends have already paid $25. The question is correct but only till the $9 part. That is senseless. Actually we may feel its true but it is not. I'll tell you one thing.

No money is missing.

$25 is with the store as cost for the pizza.

$3   is with the friends as change.

$2   is with the delivery person and is kept as tip.

25+3+2= $30

So you see, no money is missing.

P.S.: I liked the question and so here is a star for you my friend.

Have a good day!

Regards

Amal

Answer 9

The tricky part is the last paragraph. If $9 is paid by the three friends, that makes it $27....out of the $27 paid, $2 is taken away from them by the delivery person, it is not paid, so instead of adding $2, you need to subtract it to get $25. Remember the amount actually paid to the restaurant is only $25.

$30 - ($9 *3) - $2(tip) = $25

Therefore, the store has $25

the friends get $1 each back = $3

the delivery person has $2

hey...not fair...the answer right above mine was edited way after mine was posted!