Missing Dollar – scarletthief

The dollar is not missing. The prompt from the first and second paragraph make complete sense, but the third paragraph causes the confusion on if there is a missing dollar. With the change of the $30 the women gave being $5 since they only had to pay $25, is not evenly taken from each women. The most even split that can be made would be if two women had $2 taken from their $10 and $1 taken from the third woman. Now the third paragraph as I said is what causes the confusion of the “missing” dollar. Each woman did in a way pay $9 each at the end, but as mentioned the split isn’t even so it can’t be considered $9 multiplied by 3 is $27 with a missing dollar in the end. Basically, there isn’t a missing dollar since the waiter took the extra dollars from two of the women (when the split is 2:2:1 as I mentioned) and gave $1 back to each women equaling $5 total.