A man steals a $100 bill directly from a store\u2019s cash register. At that moment, the store is already down $100 in cash. But then the man does something that makes the puzzle seem more complicated: he comes back and uses that same stolen bill to buy $70 worth of merchandise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cashier accepts the $100 bill and places it back into the register. That means the original stolen $100 has now returned to the store, so that part of the loss has effectively been canceled out. However, the store still has to give the man $30 in change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of that, the man walks away with $70 worth of goods. So the store has lost $30 in cash plus $70 in merchandise. Those two amounts add up to exactly $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The common mistake is to add the original $100 theft to the $70 in goods and the $30 in change, which would produce $200. But that counts the same $100 bill twice, because the stolen bill was returned when the man used it to make the purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the correct answer is $100<\/strong>. The store ends up losing $70 worth of merchandise and $30 in cash, for a total loss of $100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man steals a $100 bill directly from a store\u2019s cash register. At that moment, the store is already down $100 in cash. But then the man… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8879,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}