A Better Way to Learn Math

This riddle has been around for a while, but it’s always amusing to me. See if you can figure out the answer.

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1?
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SOLUTION: (no cheating now…)
The solution to this problem is that the numbers have been added incorrectly. The question misleads you by adding the bellboy’s two dollars to the $27 paid, when really those two dollars are part of the $27. In the end, the Manager has $25 for the room, and the bellboy has $2 of the $27 dollars the men now have paid.