A riddle for you snusers before I go to bed

[Thunder_Snus]

This is a fun little problem usually presented in accounting or programming classes that ive dealt with before. Its a great question to ask in a room full of people. See if you can figure it out. I"ll modify it a bit to pertain to us.

You are buying 97 dollars worth of snus at a tobacco shop(no taxes or anything included)
You have no money so you borrow $50 from Thunder and $50 from Lightning
You get 3 dollars in change. You give 1 dollar to Thunder and 1 dollar to Lightning, and keep 1 dollar for yourself.
You now owe Thunder 49 and Lightning 49 which equals 98. Add the dollar you kept and you get 99.
Where is the missing dollar?

[Jimbob11]

The missing dollar is the one in my pocket. Damn, that actually hurt my drunk brain...

[Duff338]

There is no missing dollar

You paid $97 for the snus, you paid Thunder and Lighting a dollar each, $97 +$2 = $99 and you kept a dollar $99+$1 = $100

[Mykislt]

you owe 98 in total, and you have 1 in total. Adding these two values together doesn't produce any useful number that says anything about the situation.

[WickedKitchen]

you paid back the 2 dollars and are still holding the last one. it isn't missing. you still owe 98 bucks and you're holding one towards that.

[jagmanss]

Where is the missing dollar?

On the train traveling 70 mph of course....

[WolfenJack]

hmmmmmm.................

[Thunder_Snus]

You guys have done a lot better than most other people that tried to answer it the same time I did in a Java class a few years ago. Some peoples answers are ridiculously funny

[Premium Parrots]

Actually you end up $97 worth of snus and $1 for a total of $98. But you still owe thunder and lightening $49 each for a total owed of $98. There is no missing $1. But thunder and lightning both need their $.



sleep well

[EricHill78]

A gypsy stole the dollar during one of the transactions.