What....

[magicmick]

.........Happens to the pound
Three men go out for a meal at a cost of £30 the owner of the restaurant realises
it should have been £25 so he tells the waiter to run after the men and give them
back £5, on the way he thinks I will keep a tip for myself. So he gives the men £1 each and
£2 for himself, so the men paid £9 each, £27. £2 for the waiter £29, so what happened to the
£1.?A old one but never had it explained

[bibblebub]

Think of the transfer of money - the £30 has been split between £28 for the meal and £2 for the waiter so the men paid £9.33 (rounded to whole pennies) each for the meal.

[scorpiojo]

But the meal was only £25 plus £2 for the waiter and a £1 refund to each for the three men.

[scorpiojo]

* each of

[bibblebub]

i've had too much wine to explain it

[magicmick]

Hi bb never good with figuers to me the men paid £10 each with a pound
back that is £9 then £2 for waiter £29 just going out to see iss:)

[bibblebub]

the final sum as written is wrong - the men paid £25 for the meal plus £2 to the waiter which is the £27

[bibblebub]

i.e. in the last bit the english description of the transfer of money is quite simply wrong