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A line in front of movie theater, a free ticket is to given to the first person whose birthday is the same as someone who has already bought a ticket. You choose the position in this line, which position have the largest chance of getting the free ticket?
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Mar 8, 2011

A line in front of movie theater, a free ticket is to given to the first person whose birthday is the same as someone who has already bought a ticket. You choose the position in this line, which position have the largest chance of getting the free ticket?

Some sample questions: Q. You have a biased coin in which the probability of getting a head is 51%. Create an event out of this coin which has a probability of 25%. Q. There is a calculator in which all digits (0 to 9) and the basic arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /) are disabled. However other scientific functions are operational like exp, log, sin, cos, arc tan, etc. The calculator currently displays a 0. Convert this first to 2 and then to 3. Q. There are five points in an equilateral triangle of side length 1. Prove that there are two points with distance less than 1/2.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at WorldQuant

4.2
Oct 17, 2014

Some sample questions: Q. You have a biased coin in which the probability of getting a head is 51%. Create an event out of this coin which has a probability of 25%. Q. There is a calculator in which all digits (0 to 9) and the basic arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /) are disabled. However other scientific functions are operational like exp, log, sin, cos, arc tan, etc. The calculator currently displays a 0. Convert this first to 2 and then to 3. Q. There are five points in an equilateral triangle of side length 1. Prove that there are two points with distance less than 1/2.

50% of population does not smoke, 20% are heavy smokers and 30% are light smokers. If heavy smokers are twice as likely to die as light smokers, and light smokers are twice as likely to die as non-smokers then what is the likelihood that if someone died they were a heavy smoker?
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Quantitative Trader Assistant

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Mar 19, 2014

50% of population does not smoke, 20% are heavy smokers and 30% are light smokers. If heavy smokers are twice as likely to die as light smokers, and light smokers are twice as likely to die as non-smokers then what is the likelihood that if someone died they were a heavy smoker?

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