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Re: DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER??????? Sun, 24 July 2005 13:11 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
The men have collectively paid 27 dollars for the pizza, which is obvious, since the pizzaboy took $2 and the actual cost was $25. And so we see that there is no missing dollar, because the $27 the men paid is a debt, written as a negative number, and the $2 the pizzaboy took is a profit, which is a positive number, and the sum is not $29, but a debt of $25, which was paid to the Boss.

To exaggerate the example, suppose the cost of the pizza is $5, the pizzaboy taking $22, the men getting $3. Then it becomes clear that the $27 that the men wind up paying for the pizza "plus" the $22 the pizzaboy takes just doesn't equal anything meaningful. What's going on is that $22 of the $27 that the men pay has wound up in the pizzaboy's pocket, so adding $22 to $27 is in essence counting the pizzaboy's money twice.

oh shit i thought you were talkin about pizza o well

Razz

[Updated on: Sun, 24 July 2005 13:14]

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