The angles between two arms on a clock. Beware if the asked 10:40, the hour hand will have moved on past 10.
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a) The odds of having pizza on a Saturday are 60%, on Sunday, 30%. What are the odds of having pizza at least once during the weekend? b) How do the odds change if you are only allowed pizza on one of the two days? c) What about if you can only have pizza on Sunday if you had it on Saturday first?
something about bears catching salmon
Q: Suppose you want to calculate how long an escalator is. You have two times: the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while standing still, and the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while walking at a speed of x meters/second. Q: Some easy probability question on bounding the event of rain on a second day if it rained on the first. I'm sure there's someone else on here who gave a more detailed account. A follow-up required knowledge about union-bound if I recall correctly.
Cloud raining or no cloud raining
Person A walks up an escalator at 2 steps/second. Person B walks up an escalator at 3 steps/second. Person B gets on the escalator 5 seconds after A and arrives at the top X seconds after A. (I forgot the exact value of X) If the escalator is moving at 1 step/second, how many steps are visible on the escalator at a single point in time?
Multiple questions about simple probability. The main problem to me was that time always felt short.
You have 10 chips and you want to split them into an arbitrary number of pots. You then take the product of the number of chips in the pots and maximize the product. Do this for 10, 20, and 100 chips.
What is the probability of odd number of heads in a sequence of coin flips if some coins are not fair.
Round 2: How you can create fair coin with an unfair coin? Is there any way I won't waste any of my flips during the process?
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