er . . . each man hasn't paid 9 dollars. Each man paid 10 dollars less 1/3 of 5 dollars, which isn't the amount that was refunded to them. Just because the clerk can't do math, doesn't mean there's a "disappearing" dollar.
of course, I'm crap at math, so this could be completely wrong.
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