Consider an infinite set of pairwise independent random variables which are uniformly distributed between 0 and 1. What's the expected number that you need to add to get a number that exceeds 1.
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6 people sitting around in a circle, probability for them to sit in increasing age (either clockwise or counter-clockwise)?
If you toss an unbiased coin, what is the expected number of tosses you will make before you toss three tails?
Suppose you want to gamble in Vegas. In a game, you win $x if the number is prime and lose $x/2 if composite. The number is uniformly randomly generated by a machine between 1 and 10 inclusive. Will you play this game? Follow up: What if you can play n number of times and then stop. Will you play it?
2. In an urn you have red and blue balls (same number of balls in each of the two colors). You extract 3 balls what is the probability that the number of balls you have extracted is odd. Now you extract 10 balls, what is the probability that the number of balls you have extracted is odd?
You play rock, paper, scissors with an opponent, but your opponent cannot play rock. What should you play to maximize your expected profit if every time you win you win $1, lose you lose $1, draw you win $0?
Find the smallest positive integer, x, such that the product of all the digits of x is 10,000
Tell us about a time when you get angry
Minimize the number of comparisons for finding minimum and maximum of a given set of numbers.
a asymmetrical dice with 12 faces, 40% to be 12, others are equivalent. two people, choose a number. The man whose number is closer to the result will win. which number should you choose.
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