mentalist

Our 8yr old daughter wanted to buy a book for Dhs97 so mummy loaned her Dhs50 and daddy loaned her Dhs50. She went ahead and bought the book for Dhs97 and, with the Dhs3 change, she gave Dhs1 back to mummy and Dhs1 back to daddy, leaving her with Dhs1 to spend on sweets. She now owes mummy and daddy Dhs49 each (totalling Dhs98) plus her Dhs1 makes Dhs99. So what happened to the other Dhs1 from the Dhs100 originally borrowed?

kittycat1

tight bastards asking for 3 aed back! poor kid...

mentalist

It was supposed to be a loan. So you don't know the answer either.

Bahtatboy

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=734662

kittycat1

who gives a loan to an 8 year old for a book? Scrooge!

kittycat1

and she spent the extra 1 aed on sweets.


97 by 2 = 48.50

+ 1 to each parent = 49.50

x 2= 99

+ 1 aed on sweets (which won't rot your teeth as thats not even a coca cola bottle)

mentalist

And that is supposed to help? Anyway, I have been told that Dhs49 x 2 = Dhs98 less the Dhs97 spent on the book leaves the Dhs1 in the girl's pocket, so there is no shortfall. All else is just an illusion, as the song goes.

Spugsy

Holy crap, this post was just to post that little ditty?

Autonomy

No, it was to prove that the mentalist knows where every single dirham is...

OleJanx

Look after the fils and the dirhams will look after themselves...