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<span class='standouttext'>Spoiler : </span><span class='spoiler'> The tip was only $2 not $6, like a lot of people are cleverly manipulated to believe, due to sentence construction. </span>

Kyra_Ny <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

How does that work? Where did $6 come from?

<span class='standouttext'>Spoiler : </span><span class='spoiler'>The riddle adds in the wrong direction. The bill was $25, not $27, then you add the $2 tip making $27.</span>

HandEFood


I mentioned the $6 because another common error is people thinking that each person gives a $2 bill tip. 2x3=6 which is not the case.

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