(Audience Booing)

Marko: Thank you everybody.  I’m Marko the Magnificent, and it was my pleasure performing for you today.  I’ve got one more trick and then, well,  I’ll have to ….. disappear  Ha, ha, ha…

Kid in audience:  Is this almost over?  This guy is terrible.

Marko: For my final trick, I’d like you to think of a number between 1 and 10…Got it?

Kid: Let’s mess him up – I know!  Pick a different number than mine.

Marko: Now take that number and multiply it by 3. 

Kid: Yeah, got it,… let’s go…

Marko: Now I want you to add 15. 

Kid: Uh-huh.  There is no way he gets this… 

Marko: Divide that number by 3 

Marko: Now, subtract the number you first started with…

Kid: He’ll never get this right for everybody….

Marko: And your answer is 5!

Kid: He’s right!  I got 5!  You got 5?  We ALL got 5?  But we all started with different numbers!  How did he do that?