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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.
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Assistant Trader

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Mar 29, 2011

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.

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?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Mar 17, 2024

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?

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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Assistant Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Oct 10, 2013

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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