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10 island in a line. Two bridges between two consecutive island. one is okay, one is broken. If you take the broken bridge, you will falls into water and taken back to the start. start from the first island,find the expected number of time u cross the non-broken bridges when you reach the end.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at WorldQuant

4.2
Oct 19, 2016

10 island in a line. Two bridges between two consecutive island. one is okay, one is broken. If you take the broken bridge, you will falls into water and taken back to the start. start from the first island,find the expected number of time u cross the non-broken bridges when you reach the end.

You are given 2 eggs. * You have access to a 100-storey building. * Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical. * You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking. * Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process
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Research Analyst

Interviewed at WorldQuant

4.2
Mar 14, 2011

You are given 2 eggs. * You have access to a 100-storey building. * Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical. * You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking. * Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process

Robot wakes up every morning and does one of the following things with equal (1/4) probability: 1) self-destroys; 2) does nothing; 3) clones himself (so you have 2 robots); 4) clones himself two times (so you have 3 robots). If you have one robot at the start of the first day, what is the probability that, eventually, you will have no robots?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Jul 23, 2012

Robot wakes up every morning and does one of the following things with equal (1/4) probability: 1) self-destroys; 2) does nothing; 3) clones himself (so you have 2 robots); 4) clones himself two times (so you have 3 robots). If you have one robot at the start of the first day, what is the probability that, eventually, you will have no robots?

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