A man steals a $100 bill from a store\u2019s cash register. Instead of leaving for good, he later returns to the same store and uses that exact $100 bill to buy $70 worth of merchandise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cashier, unaware that the bill was stolen from the register earlier, accepts it as normal payment. Because the purchase costs only $70, the cashier gives the man $30 in change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first, the situation can seem confusing because the store lost $100 when the bill was stolen, then received that same $100 bill back during the purchase. But once the stolen bill is returned to the register, that original cash loss is effectively canceled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What remains is the real damage: the man walks away with $70 worth of goods and also keeps the $30 in change the cashier gave him. Those are the two actual losses the store is left with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the correct answer is $100<\/strong>. The store loses $70 in merchandise plus $30 in cash<\/strong>, for a total loss of $100<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man steals a $100 bill from a store\u2019s cash register. Instead of leaving for good, he later returns to the same store and uses that exact… <\/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-9213","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\/9213","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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9214"}],"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=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewstogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}