Maths: Missing Tip
A simple puzzle here, I will give 20 tokens to the first person to post the answer
Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the remaining £1 :?:
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