You roll 3 dice. If you get the same number, you earn 10 $. If you get two numbers the same, you get 5 $. If the numbers are all different, you lose 2 $. What is the expected win?
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What is the fair price for a dice game in which you receive the amount you roll but have the option of rolling the dice a second time. If you choose to roll a second time, you must take the amount you roll on that occasion.
If a shooting star has an 80% chance of appearing in the next hour, what is the chance of it appearing in the next half hour?
A can finish a job in 100 min, B can finish the same job in 120 min. A and B work together on this job, but after 40 min C comes to help them and they finish the job in additional 10 min. How long would it take to C to finish the job by himself?
Logic puzzles, differential equations, linear systems of equations
Gave different spreads (butterflies,call,put) and prices and I had to figure out the price of certain strike calls and puts. interesting mixture between logic and options knowledge.
throwing dice for 5 times, probablity of throwing at least 3 ones continuously
Sum all odd numbers from 1 to 2n + 1.
throw a fair die with 6 faces, the expected number of times until 2 consecutive 6 come out
4 mental math questions. Stuff like 37 times 37. How many 27-cent stamps can you buy with $10, etc. Then he asked how confident (in a probability) I was that I got them all right, how confident I was I got the hardest one right, and how confident I was I got at least one wrong. After, he asked me a coin problem: What is the probability you get exactly 2 heads in 4 flips of a coin.
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