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If you have three baskets one with apples, one with oranges, and one with both. If all of the baskets are incorrectly labeled, and you can pick one piece of fruit out of one of the baskets, how can you correctly label all of the baskets?
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Actuarial Internship

Interviewed at Allstate

3.5
Jan 4, 2011

If you have three baskets one with apples, one with oranges, and one with both. If all of the baskets are incorrectly labeled, and you can pick one piece of fruit out of one of the baskets, how can you correctly label all of the baskets?

A train left station A going 20 mph, and at the same time a train left station B going 15 mph. A bird sat on top of train A and started flying at 40 mph as soon as train A left. The bird flew to train B, then back to train A, then back to train B, and so on, until the two trains met. The track is 70 miles long. How many miles did the bird fly?
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Actuarial Intern

Interviewed at The Cigna Group

3.5
Oct 30, 2014

A train left station A going 20 mph, and at the same time a train left station B going 15 mph. A bird sat on top of train A and started flying at 40 mph as soon as train A left. The bird flew to train B, then back to train A, then back to train B, and so on, until the two trains met. The track is 70 miles long. How many miles did the bird fly?

One specific interviewer has this question and tends to use it a lot so I'm told: You own 2 restaurants. The cumulative amount of customers in the first 3 weeks are as follows: Restaurant A: 100, 200, 1500 Restaurant B: 250, 750, 1500 You are about to open a 3rd restaurant . Predict what amount of customers the first week will hold. Explain how you came up with that answer. explain any assumptions you use in your analysis
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Actuarial Analyst

Interviewed at Allstate

3.5
Nov 11, 2015

One specific interviewer has this question and tends to use it a lot so I'm told: You own 2 restaurants. The cumulative amount of customers in the first 3 weeks are as follows: Restaurant A: 100, 200, 1500 Restaurant B: 250, 750, 1500 You are about to open a 3rd restaurant . Predict what amount of customers the first week will hold. Explain how you came up with that answer. explain any assumptions you use in your analysis

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