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A guy goes to the store with just enough money for 30 balloons. When he arrives, he discovers there is a massive balloon sale: buy 1 at regular price, get the second for 2/3 regular price. How many balloons can the guy buy?
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Junior Relative Value Arbitrage Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1
Mar 18, 2015

A guy goes to the store with just enough money for 30 balloons. When he arrives, he discovers there is a massive balloon sale: buy 1 at regular price, get the second for 2/3 regular price. How many balloons can the guy buy?

There are 100 unique cards labeled 1 through 100 that are shuffled. You are dealt 4 random cards. The bet: you get $50 if you can turn over the cards in ascending order. You have to pay $2 if you cannot. Do you take the bet?
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Junior Relative Value Arbitrage Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1
Mar 18, 2015

There are 100 unique cards labeled 1 through 100 that are shuffled. You are dealt 4 random cards. The bet: you get $50 if you can turn over the cards in ascending order. You have to pay $2 if you cannot. Do you take the bet?

One man is standing at 1/4 of the bridge, he hears a train coming( but he doesn't know the direction and the distance), and he starts running, and the train doesn't hit him. What is the relative speed of the man and the train?
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Trader Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
May 1, 2014

One man is standing at 1/4 of the bridge, he hears a train coming( but he doesn't know the direction and the distance), and he starts running, and the train doesn't hit him. What is the relative speed of the man and the train?

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