Round 1: Typical Question you can find here. Adding up odd numbers within 100, two painters paint at different speed to work together, what's the chance 12 coins tossed having an even number of heads. Totally 8 of them.
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The classic 5 pirates/100 pieces of gold game theory question. Did not expect it.
How many commercial airplanes are bought in the U.S. every year? Give 90% confidence.
I did not know about glassdoor, so the most unexpected was evaluation of my confidence (in %) in my answers. the only one that I struggled with (without pen and paper) was the car betting game. after the interview I googled the questions and they are all on this site.
How much paper can be made from a tree?
Expected value of various binomial distributions, game theory
Give me a 10% confidence interval on the mass of the earth
The probability of getting two queens from a deck of cards.
Why do you want to be a trader?
1. 12% of 47 2. a deck of card (no joker), if I turn the first two cards around, find the probability that both cards will be ace 3. flip four coins, get $1 for head and zero for tail, find the price you need to pay to play this game 4. How confident are you with the previous questions you have answered? 5. a) roll two dice, add the values, you and your component to pick a number represents the sum of two dice, which number will you pick? would you go first or second b) if the probability of getting 12 is 40% and the rest is a uniform distribution of 60%, which number would you pick now? 5. two player A, B are to play a game (7 rounds in total), the game terminates if any of the player wins 4 games. The winning probability of each player is a 1/2, find the probability that both players will be playing the 7th round.
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