Three salesmen enter a hotel to rent a room. The hotel manager tells them that there is only one room left, but that they can use it together for $30 per night. The three salesmen each give him $10 and go to their room. Later, however, the manager regrets that he let the salesmen pay too much, because the room only costs $25. Therefore, he calls the bellhop, gives him five one-dollar bills, and says: "Give these $5 to the salesmen and tell them that they have paid too much."

On the way up, the bellhop realizes that he can never divide those five one-dollar bills fairly among the three salesmen. So he puts two of the one-dollar bills in his pocket and gives each salesmen back one one-dollar bill.

So each salesmen has paid $9.00 for the room.
In addition, the bellhop kept $2.00.
Three times nine is 27, and 27 plus those 2 is 29... not 30!
So 1 dollar is missing!

The question: What happened to that last dollar?

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Question 2: "During our holidays," tells Anthony, "we arrived - two fathers and two sons - in the small village of Zeelst on a cold evening. There we looked for a place to sleep in the only hotel. Unfortunately there were only three beds free. Still, everyone slept alone in a bed."

How is this possible?

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