There Were Enough Chairs
A man had arranged as many chairs around a table as there were people coming for a meal.
Yet just before the guests arrived, he put one chair away. Only then could everyone sit around the same table.
The number of people coming hadn't changed. Why?
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One of the guests will occupy the space left by the chair he removed.
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Answer
He cleared a place at the table for a guest who would eat while seated in a wheelchair.
Explanation
One of the guests was going to eat without moving from their wheelchair to another chair.
One of the chairs the man had set out was in the spot where that guest would sit at the table in their wheelchair.
Putting that chair away made room for the wheelchair. That guest and all the others now had somewhere to sit, so everyone could gather around the same table.
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