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Anyone know how to solve this?

You see a shirt for £97, you can't afford it so u borrow £50 from your mum and £50 from your dad which equals £100. You buy the shirt and get £3 change so you give your dad £1 and your mum £1 back and you keep the other pound. So now you owe your mum £49 and dad £49, 49+49 =98 + your £1 =99. Where's the missing £1?

(AND NO YOU CANT GIVE YOUR MUM & DAD £1.50 EACH)
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There is no missing pound. The addition of the two sums you owe to the pound you still have is nonsensical; but because the riddle is designed to make that nonsensical addition come out at very nearly the correct amount (£100) it fools people into thinking it should make sense.
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There is no missing pound.

You've already paid back 1 pound each to your parents so the total debt should only add up to 98, and it does.

You owe your mum £49 and your dad £49 and you have 1 pound + a shirt.

The '+ your £1' bit is the part in there to confuse you

Ooops, I solved it.
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The £1 you take out of the equation cannot be put back into it since it is put into your money which is seperate to the debt you have to your parents. So its just 49+49=98 left to pay since you have already paid off £1 to each parent

Hope this one doesnt get as much flame since the OP didnt believe myself and others were right
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lcecube wrote
There is no missing pound. The addition of the two sums you owe to the pound you still have is nonsensical; but because the riddle is designed to make that nonsensical addition come out at very nearly the correct amount (£100) it fools people into thinking it should make sense.

This makes the most sense and it was sort of what i was thinking after reading it
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Nice riddle bro had me for a minute till I saw the other posts
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is this one of your math question?
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wait there, let me go ring my Maths teacher, brb
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My brain hurts, staaaaahp
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