Answer to the first riddle

A group of 3 friends goes into a hotel and asks for one room for the night. The clerk tells them it is $30, so each friend chips in $10 to pay for the room. They go upstairs and get settled in. A little while later the manager is looking over the hotel records and realizes that the clerk overcharged them, as the room was on special right now for $25 a night. He handed the bell-hop 5 ones and sent him upstairs to give them their money and apologize for the mishap. On the way upstairs, the bell-hop thinks to himself, there are 3 friends, and they are going to have to split this amongst themselves. $5 doesn't split evenly. I'll just pocket $2, and give them $3 back. So the bell-hop returns the $3 and and apologizes for the mistake.

Now I'm sure you are going WHERE IN HELL DID THAT OTHER DOLLAR GO?!?!?!

The answer: no where, it never was missing.

Think back to 5th grade math, and recall that little thing called order of operations that says you have to multiply/divide BEFORE you add/subtract.

I know. STUPID joke. But it did get you thinking, and that is the entire point of riddles.

The other answer is soon to follow. So think on it a little more. (hint: why did the riddle say Belle of New York? What is so special about New York? Why New York?)