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There is a game where you have three coins, and your opponent has three coins. You both flip your coins at the same time. If the number of heads you have matches the number of heads he has, then you win $2. Otherwise you lose $1. Do you want to play this game?
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Quantitatiave Research Associate

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Oct 31, 2013

There is a game where you have three coins, and your opponent has three coins. You both flip your coins at the same time. If the number of heads you have matches the number of heads he has, then you win $2. Otherwise you lose $1. Do you want to play this game?

If you are playing tennis and are at deuce with your rival, how would you choose to proceed? There are two options: keep playing deuce rule until you or your rival wins. Or you play 3 mini points rule, who win 2 points wins the game. Assume you winning rate is 0.7 i.i.d at each point, which rule would you pick?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Oct 26, 2016

If you are playing tennis and are at deuce with your rival, how would you choose to proceed? There are two options: keep playing deuce rule until you or your rival wins. Or you play 3 mini points rule, who win 2 points wins the game. Assume you winning rate is 0.7 i.i.d at each point, which rule would you pick?

Given three bowls, one with two blue balls, one with two red balls, and one with a red ball and a blue ball, what is the probability of pulling a blue ball from the same bowl given that you have already pulled one blue ball from that bowl?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Hudson River Trading

4.2
Apr 9, 2021

Given three bowls, one with two blue balls, one with two red balls, and one with a red ball and a blue ball, what is the probability of pulling a blue ball from the same bowl given that you have already pulled one blue ball from that bowl?

“Imagine that you have three boxes, one containing two black marbles, one containing two white marbles, and the third, one black marble and one white marble. The boxes were labeled for their contents - BB, WW, BW - but someone has switched the labels so that every box is now incorrectly labeled. You are allowed to take one marble at a time out of any box, without looking inside, and by this process of sampling you are to determine the contents of all three boxes. What is the smallest number of drawings needed to do this?”
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Web Technology Intern

Interviewed at Riot Games

4
Apr 26, 2014

“Imagine that you have three boxes, one containing two black marbles, one containing two white marbles, and the third, one black marble and one white marble. The boxes were labeled for their contents - BB, WW, BW - but someone has switched the labels so that every box is now incorrectly labeled. You are allowed to take one marble at a time out of any box, without looking inside, and by this process of sampling you are to determine the contents of all three boxes. What is the smallest number of drawings needed to do this?”

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