A man steals a $100 bill from a shop and later returns to the same store with that exact bill. He uses it to purchase $70 worth of goods, and the shop owner gives him $30 in change. At first, it can seem as though the store has somehow lost far more than $100 because the stolen money was involved twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The easiest way to solve it is to follow what physically leaves the shop. When the man initially steals the $100 bill, the shop is temporarily down $100 in cash. But when he comes back and spends that same stolen bill, the $100 returns to the cash register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shop owner then gives the man $70 worth of merchandise. That merchandise permanently leaves the store with him, so the shop loses $70 in goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The owner also gives the man $30 in change. That $30 permanently leaves the store as well. The stolen $100 bill itself is back where it originally came from, so it is no longer an additional loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, the shop owner\u2019s total loss is $100<\/strong>: $70 worth of goods plus $30 in cash. The trick is not to count the stolen $100 twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man steals a $100 bill from a shop and later returns to the same store with that exact bill. He uses it to purchase $70 worth… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}