Suppose you were 80% sure of something, and someone was offering you 1:1 odds on it. What percentage of your wealth would you bet on it?
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Given a bunch of balls of different weights, and a scale. Know that all balls look identical but one weight differently. Given the minimum tries to use the scale, find the heavy ball.
Say we have a pond with lily pads. The lily pads double every minute. After 60 minutes, the pond is completely covered. How long does it take for the pond to be 1/4 covered?
you look up in the sky at night and the probability of seeing a shooting star in an hour is 91%. What is the probability that you see a shooting star in the next 30 minutes
There are two call options, one strike price is 40, the other strike is 60, which is more expensive?
If you can toss 4 coins and get 1 dollar for 1 head, 2 dollars for 2, 3 for 3 and 4 for 4. How much are you willing to pay for this game? If you are given an option that you can choose to toss the 4 coins again after the first toss, how much are you willing to pay now?
49x51=?
Find the probability that you pick the first two top cards are two tens from a deck of cards
I have a cube made up of 27 smaller cubes. I paint the outside of the cube red! I take a random cube and roll it. What is the probability no red faces are showing? Given that I roll no red, what is the probability that the cube is the center cube, with no red faces? I roll two ten sided die. Which is more likely, that I roll two odd numbers, or two even numbers?
What is the probability of getting an even number of heads in 4 coin tosses? 7 tosses? 77 tosses?
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