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One Rupee Mystery Puzzle

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Que : Three friends rent a room for Rs.30 by paying Rs.10 each. The owner decides to give them a discount Rs.5 and gives it to the broker. The broker who a cunning man takes Rs.2. and returns one rupee to each of them. So the sum paid by each person would be Rs.9 which adds upto Rs.27 and the broker took Rs.2 ,so the total is Rs.29 where did that Re.1 go?

Ans : 
In this interviewer just want to see your way of analyzing a problem . According to the question three men paid 27 rupees for the hotel room . And according owner they should have paid 25 rupees after the discount of 5 rupees . It means 27 - 25 = 2 rupees are left which are at cunning man hence nothing is missing. 


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