SOLUTION:
The three men HAVE paid $27. But the bellboy’s $2 are part of it. The hotel has $25 of the men’s dollars. The bellboy has the other two. That’s $27, and the three the men have make $30.
The riddle is confusing because it would add the bellboy’s $2 to the men’s $27. But the men don’t HAVE $27, nine each.
They each PAID $9 for a total of $27, of which the hotel has $25 and the bellboy has $2. They HAVE $1 each.
Add that to the two the bellboy has, and the $25 in the cash drawer (together the men’s $27), and you have accounted for all thirty.
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Graph detailing where all the money went:
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