Three men and a TV

[Fried Egg]

Three men go into a shop to buy a TV.

They each have £10 on them and find a TV for £26.

They each give the shop attendant their £10.

The shop attenddant gives them back £1 each and to avoid the problems of splitting £1 three ways, he keeps the last pound to himself.

Now each of the three men have spent £9 and the shop keeper has kept £1 so that's 9+9+9+1 = 28.

The question is, where has the other £2 gone?

[HarryW]

No they haven't, they've spent £26 between them on the TV, roughly £8.66, and they've given away £1 between them, so they've lost £9 each. That's £27. They got a total of £3 change. 30 quid. That's a particularly crap puzzle.

[da_silvy]

Hehehe

You tell him Harry...

[Starman]

It's a particularly cheap TV!

[simonm]

I guess that's why they didn't mind the shopkeeper keeping £1 for himself; cheeky tike! :p