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There is a fair dice. After the first roll, you can decide whether to take the number or roll it again. However, you have to take the value from the second roll. If I charge you $4 to play this game and pay you whatever the dice shows, will you play this game?
Nov 9, 2014

There is a fair dice. After the first roll, you can decide whether to take the number or roll it again. However, you have to take the value from the second roll. If I charge you $4 to play this game and pay you whatever the dice shows, will you play this game?

Q1: Brain teaser, very simple, about conditional probability Q2: statistical estimation, we need to know how to use CLT and the confidence interval, simple and easy Q3: Hard question, need some knowledge in Markov chain and conditional probability. The hardest part is that I was asked to answer the following question" explain your result intuitively, what is the reason for that expectation be that value?" Q4: Dice game question with infinite many rolls, it is a hard one and the result is really counter intuitive.
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Interviewed at Hudson River Trading

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Feb 1, 2021

Q1: Brain teaser, very simple, about conditional probability Q2: statistical estimation, we need to know how to use CLT and the confidence interval, simple and easy Q3: Hard question, need some knowledge in Markov chain and conditional probability. The hardest part is that I was asked to answer the following question" explain your result intuitively, what is the reason for that expectation be that value?" Q4: Dice game question with infinite many rolls, it is a hard one and the result is really counter intuitive.

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