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How much would you pay to play this game? You have a fair coin. You get heads you win $1 and can continue to play. You get tails, you collect your winnings ans stop the game. Second question. Now what if the winnings double each time you get heads.
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Knight Capital

3.4
Jul 21, 2012

How much would you pay to play this game? You have a fair coin. You get heads you win $1 and can continue to play. You get tails, you collect your winnings ans stop the game. Second question. Now what if the winnings double each time you get heads.

A bus has some number of people initially. At first stop, three quarters of the passenger get off, and 7 get on the bus. At the second stop, the same thing happened, three quarters of the passenger get off, and 7 get on the bus. At the third stop, exactly the same thing happened as previous two stops. What is the minimum number of passengers to start with?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Dec 15, 2013

A bus has some number of people initially. At first stop, three quarters of the passenger get off, and 7 get on the bus. At the second stop, the same thing happened, three quarters of the passenger get off, and 7 get on the bus. At the third stop, exactly the same thing happened as previous two stops. What is the minimum number of passengers to start with?

10 island in a line. Two bridges between two consecutive island. one is okay, one is broken. If you take the broken bridge, you will falls into water and taken back to the start. start from the first island,find the expected number of time u cross the non-broken bridges when you reach the end.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at WorldQuant

4.2
Oct 19, 2016

10 island in a line. Two bridges between two consecutive island. one is okay, one is broken. If you take the broken bridge, you will falls into water and taken back to the start. start from the first island,find the expected number of time u cross the non-broken bridges when you reach the end.

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