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You throw 1000 darts. Each one has a 50% chance to score. For the first 500 darts each is worth 1 point, for the second 500 darts each is worth 3 points. If you score 1500 points. Most likely how many 3point darts have you scored.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Aug 9, 2013

You throw 1000 darts. Each one has a 50% chance to score. For the first 500 darts each is worth 1 point, for the second 500 darts each is worth 3 points. If you score 1500 points. Most likely how many 3point darts have you scored.

1. 100 students, make survey cheat/not cheat, student toss a coin, if head, tell truth, if tail, toss again, if Head then yes, if tail then no. 30 students answer yes, Q: how many student cheated? 2. Given an array, use bootstrap method to get the var of mean (I used R). 3. Can you write 2 in one line within function? ( so use apply() )
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Apr 20, 2016

1. 100 students, make survey cheat/not cheat, student toss a coin, if head, tell truth, if tail, toss again, if Head then yes, if tail then no. 30 students answer yes, Q: how many student cheated? 2. Given an array, use bootstrap method to get the var of mean (I used R). 3. Can you write 2 in one line within function? ( so use apply() )

How many digits in (100)^10 Strategy for winning one dollar for every heads in 100 throws of coin toss. What question would you ask if you could ask one question to the person who knows the entire seq of the 100 coin tosses
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Jul 9, 2015

How many digits in (100)^10 Strategy for winning one dollar for every heads in 100 throws of coin toss. What question would you ask if you could ask one question to the person who knows the entire seq of the 100 coin tosses

There is a big line of people waiting outside a theatre for buying tickets. The theatre owner comes out and announces that the first person to have a birthday same as someone standing before him in the line gets a free ticket. Where wil you stand to maximise your chance?
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Dec 12, 2010

There is a big line of people waiting outside a theatre for buying tickets. The theatre owner comes out and announces that the first person to have a birthday same as someone standing before him in the line gets a free ticket. Where wil you stand to maximise your chance?

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