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A man takes two £50 notes from the till of a hardware shop whilst the owner isn't looking. He then buys a £70 hammer drill and hands over the two notes and receives three £10 notes in change. How much money has the owner lost?

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jeanjeannie50 profile image
jeanjeannie50

Owner has lost £100 unless the man who stole the money puts the £30 change back in the till.

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Tos92

The owner has lost £30 as the £70 has gone back in the till after the purchase of the hammer.

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Gumbie_Cat

£30 cash from the till, in addition to the wholesale cost of the hammer drill.

Loss is £30 cash, plus £70 as the retail value of the drill but which may be considerably less as in as a bought in item cost to the business.

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Laurab101

£200. £100 from the till. £70 retail price of the drill + £30 change.

Originally £100 stolen from the till

£70 item removed from the store (or cost value)

£30 'change' which wasn't really owed as the original payment didn't belong to the person.

The till is down by £130 and goods by £70.

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Lezzers in reply toLaurab101

That's what I calculated it to be 😊

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organiclady in reply toLezzers

me too

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Deejay62 in reply toLaurab101

£130.? The 100 taken from till, he paid 70 for the drill from that 100, but he got 30 change back.

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RufusScamp

£100. A £70 drill and £30.

My brain is saying £200 but I'm never right.🤣

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Mrbojangles

Teacher asked class” if you have £2 in one pocket and £5 in the other pocket what have you got?”

Little Tommy at the back shouts out…

“Someone else's trousers on miss”

🤪

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Mounthall in reply toMrbojangles

class 😆 my pockets were also empty at school when your from a family of 6 in the 1970’s

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Heythrop51

Basically it's £30 in cash plus the cost to the business of the drill. This is actually more than the trade price to buy it in. Overheads such as rent, rates, energy, salaries, etc. all come in to it. This is what brought companies down in the pandemic when these exceeded the profit margin!

wischo profile image
wischo

£100

Mlinde profile image
Mlinde

Did it give the owner of the shop a heart attack?

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Midnight2022

£30 cash and the value of the drill which is probably less than £70

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kiwimick

As you ask how much CASH has he lost the answer is £30

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ChoochSiesta in reply tokiwimick

The word "cash" does not appear in the question?

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kiwimick in reply toChoochSiesta

cash

noun

Definition of cash

as in money

something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment

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Digger0

£100 or a £70.00 hammer plus £30.00

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gladliz

£130. But don't ask me to explain how I reached that conclusion.

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spinningjenny

£170. The owner has lost the £100 that was taken from the till plus the £70 cost of the drill. The £30 change is part of the original £100 which was taken from the till so shouldn’t be counted a second time. I think 🤔

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Tidy69

30 quid plus drill cost

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Qualipop

The £30 change plus the cost of the drill. The original stolen £100 went back into the till.

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Dollcollector

£170 The £100 in cash and the cost of the drill.

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BlindRef

Ignore the cost of the drill ,the toll is physically down by 60.00 ( reasoning -100 stolen + 70 recrived

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BlindRef

-30 change equals -60.00

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BlindRef

Forgive the spelling mistakez

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BlindRef

Z ???

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BlindRef

Apologies all - I forgot to add the sale value to the running till total so £130.00 down

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Handel

😂😂 xxx

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Newstart3

Sooooo .... is there an official answer to this?? Seem to be several answers. The question asks how much money has the owner lost, so I would say £30 plus cost price of the drill.

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