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The Seven Rings

You arrive at a hotel and have 3 sets of golden rings. The first set of rings has 4 rings, the second set has 2 rings and the third only has one ring. You cannot take these sets of rings apart, exchange them for a different form of currency, and the hotel clerk has no change. You want to stay at the hotel for 7 nights, and you have to pay one gold ring for each night that you stay. You cannot pay in advance, or all at once at the end of your stay.

3 Sets of Golden Rings

 How do you pay for your 7 nights at the hotel?

This is how should you pay! 

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Paying Rings At Hotel


What was the condition? 

You can pay 7 rings in 7 days in following sequence.

Day 1 : 

Give the only ring that is in first set. Paid 1 ring.

Day 2 : 

Take back ring given on Day 1 & give second set of rings having 2 rings. Paid 2 rings

Day 3 :

Give 1 ring back again. Total rings paid = 2 + 1 = 3

The Missing Dollar

Three travelers register at a hotel and are told that their rooms will cost $10 each so they pay $30. Later the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged them $25. He gives a bellboy $5 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and gives them each only $1, keeping $2 for himself.

So the men actually spent $27 and the bellboy kept $2.What happened to the other dollar of the original $30?

Story of the missing dollar

Here it is found! 

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The Story of Dollar That Wasn't Lost


How it was lost? 

All you need to think on the behalf of travelers to simplify things around.

Initially they spent $30 for the stay. Now these $30 distributed into 2 parts viz. 25 & 5 by clerk.  Out of 5, travelers received only 3 that means now they have spent $27 only. Out of 27, clerk had 25 & bellboy took 2! Trying to add bellboy's 2 in 27 is pointless but the base of this quiz!

The dollar itself wasn't missing at all!
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