The missing dollar

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Three people go to a motel and rent a room (I would tell why, but this is the asskkkroft version).

The room is $30, and each one pays $10, and they proceed to the room.

A while later, the front desk clerk decides that since three are sharing that room, the charge should really only be $25, and he sends the bellboy up to return $5 of the $30 the trio had paid.

When the bellboy gets to the room, he realizes he could not split the $5 among the three people, and decides to give each person $1 back, and keep the remaining $2 for himself.

So, our trio, who had paid $10 each for the room and then got back $1 each, only paid $9 each ($10-$1 = $9).

Three (3) times $9 (9) is $27.
Add the $2 (2) the bellboy kept, and you have $29.

What happened to the other dollar?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Nice riddle, wrong math

30-5=25

3 (1 for each ahem..."guest") + 25= 28

2 for the enterprising, and undoubtedly a future civil servant, most likely in Congress

+28 = 30

qed

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3. You're harshing my buzz man

lol!

seriously tho, why doesn't it work the other way (30-1=29*3=27+2=29)?

why is "that" math wrong?

[Wonk]

4. Ask Dr. Math

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.missing.dollar.html

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5. wow, this is one of few things I remember from childhood

but I remember it as some proof of something, i dunno, a flaw in the science of mathematics or something (but then, I found out about pi - lol).

trippy, I've asked this a lot of times, and had generated a certain level of "whoa," but of course, onoone can make a dollar dissappear with mere words.

(That sh*t's crazy. I'm Brian Fellows.)

[Fenris]

2. It's there

30-2=28-3=25

Just a matter of your thought process.