mostly probability and logic problems
Quantitative Researcher Intern Interview Questions
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You flip a coin against me and whoever gets more heads wins. If you can bet money after each coin flip, what is the optimal betting strategy
Probability of raining on sunday or saturday based on individual probabilities. Give upper and lower bounds on the probability of the union.
Alice and Bob each have a coin and flip it until they get a heads. If Bob flipped his coin more times than Alice, what is the expected number of times Alice flipped her coin?
Ask about my programming background as well
the deck of cards question described in other reviews
Person A has a 20-sided dice and person B has three 6-sided dice. They both roll their dice and whoever gets a bigger number/sum of numbers wins the game. Is it a fair game? Same game with one more player C who has a 20-sided dice. Is this new game fair? (all dice are fair; a 20-sided dice has number 1,2,…, 20 on each of its 20 sides)
Bayes problem involving an unfair coin mixed in a certrain number of fair coins
Standard math / probability questions and brainteasers
Given 3 black and 2 white balls in a bag, you can take several balls and stop when you want to. How should you determine when to stop in order to maximize expectation of b-w. This part is easy, Then some generalization of it which is really hard.
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