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Quantitative Analyst Interview Questions
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What would you do to mitigate event-based risk, such as political announcements affecting your positions?
Find expected value of number of rolls it takes to roll each unique value on a die.
Q: Assume you want to get from city A to city B. There are three roads you can choose uniformly from. However only one road leads actually to city B, which takes 2 hours. The other two roads end up in city A again and both are 1 hour long. Given that you don't know which road you took, If you return to city A (i.e. you have to choose uniformly a road again), what is the expected time to get to city B?
Eight quants from different banks are getting together for drinks. They are all interested in knowing the average salary of the group. Nevertheless, being cautious and humble individuals, everyone prefers not to disclose his or her own salary to the group. Can you come up with a strategy for the quants to calculate the average salary without knowing other people's salaries?
If I flip 100 coins and then multiply the number of heads by the number of tails, what is the expected value of that number? Can you give a confidence interval on this number?
It's 10:45 in London ,what is a degree between hours and minute hand of a clock ?
you and a friend are playing a coin tossing game. You will be tossing a coin and tracking the results. You each have a sequence you're looking for. Your sequence is HTT, your friends sequence is HHT. the player whos sequence appears first in the game wins. Would you want to play? What is your probability of winning?
5 cent and 11 cent stamps. Max you can't buy with combination of these stamps.
toss two dice. if the sum is 7, you win a dollar. if the sum is even, you lose a dollar. otherwise, roll again. what is the expected payoff?
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