You have a birthday cake and have exactly 3 slices to cut it into 8 equal pieces. How do you do it?
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You have 100 quarters, 10 heads, 90 tails up in a dark room where you can't see the quarters. How do you divide them into 2 piles where you have an even amount of heads in each pile?
Are bond prices affected more by a yield change at high or low yields?
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Brain Teaser: you have 7 seemingly identical looking balls, only 1 is slightly lighter than the other 6. You are given a scale. How can you find the 1 lighter ball is you are only allowed to use the scale twice.
If you had 100 million dollars to do whatever with it you like, what would you do? Would you invest it? If so, what would be your first trade?
If you had 2 6-sided dice, what's the probability you get a 7?
Would you rather be playing for the New York Yankees on the bench or a star on the Tampa Bay Rays?
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If a bond is trading above par, the YTM is greater, less, or equal to the market's yield?
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