Here's a riddle, see if you can solve it. It's tough, and I could not figure it out.?

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Three guys walk into a hotel and ask how much for a room. The innkeeper says, "It's 30 bucks." Each guy hands the innkeeper 10 ones. One of the guys asks, "Are you running any specials?" The innkeeper says, "Oh, yeah!" He then pulls five one dollar bills out of the money they paid. He hands each of the guests one dollar in return and puts two dollars in his pocket. How much did each guest pay for the room? Do the math! It doesn't add up.
 
Several people have already answered this, but a lot of people don't seem to understand it so I'll give it a try.

The men didn't pay 27 dollars for the room, they paid 25. The desk clerk screwed them each out of 66.66 cents, which he pocketed. The desk clerk TOLD them that they were paying 9 dollars each, in reality, they were paying $8.33 each ($25) and he stole the other 66 cents each (2 dollars) that they thought they were paying for the room. It's like this.

$30 what they paid.
- $3 what they got back.
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$27 what they thought they were paying for the room
-$2 what the desk clerk stole from them
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$25 the cost of the room

It's worded to confuse you, because you shouldn't be adding the 2 dollars that the clerk stole to the 27. The 27 includes that 2 dollars already (25 for the room and 2 for the clerk = 27 what they thought they were paying). Then you add the 3 to that to get the original thirty.
 
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