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The population of desolate, remote planet is kept alive by a life support system. The population quadruples every 54 years, but the life support system capacity can only be doubled every 54 years. If the initial population is 2 people and the initial life support system has capacity for 16384 people, how many years will pass before the population reaches the capacity of the support system?
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Research Analyst

Interviewed at WorldQuant

4.2
Apr 2, 2018

The population of desolate, remote planet is kept alive by a life support system. The population quadruples every 54 years, but the life support system capacity can only be doubled every 54 years. If the initial population is 2 people and the initial life support system has capacity for 16384 people, how many years will pass before the population reaches the capacity of the support system?

You have r red balls, w white balls in a bag. If you keep drawing balls out of the bag until the bag now only contains balls of a single color (ie you run out of a color) what is the probability you run out of white balls first? (in terms of r and w).
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Citadel

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Dec 4, 2018

You have r red balls, w white balls in a bag. If you keep drawing balls out of the bag until the bag now only contains balls of a single color (ie you run out of a color) what is the probability you run out of white balls first? (in terms of r and w).

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