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Given a set of 36 horses how would you go about efficiently racing them in order to determine the two fastest horses, each race is between 6 horses and efficient in this context refers to a minimum number of total races needing to be performed.
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Quantitative Analyst Intern

Interviewed at Deutsche Bank

3.8
Oct 31, 2021

Given a set of 36 horses how would you go about efficiently racing them in order to determine the two fastest horses, each race is between 6 horses and efficient in this context refers to a minimum number of total races needing to be performed.

A cookie jar in empty at the start. At every move if it is empty you either leave it empty of put one cookie in it each with equal probability. If it is not empty, wither you take 1 or put 1 with equal probability. At the end of 2024 iterations, what is the probability that the jar remains empty.
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Quantitative Trader Intern

Interviewed at Tower Research Capital

4.1
Jul 31, 2024

A cookie jar in empty at the start. At every move if it is empty you either leave it empty of put one cookie in it each with equal probability. If it is not empty, wither you take 1 or put 1 with equal probability. At the end of 2024 iterations, what is the probability that the jar remains empty.

Say you have one bacterium now. In any minute, each living one has a quarter chance of dieing, a quarter of staying still, a quarter of splitting into 2, and a quarter of splitting into 3. What is the probability of this species dieing out finally.
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Quantitative Finance

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Jan 27, 2011

Say you have one bacterium now. In any minute, each living one has a quarter chance of dieing, a quarter of staying still, a quarter of splitting into 2, and a quarter of splitting into 3. What is the probability of this species dieing out finally.

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