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Investment banking interviews are divided into early rounds and superdays. Expect your first round interview to be technical-heavy, so come ready to answer questions about accounting, valuation, and modeling. Though these interviews are quite technical, prepared candidates know that this is only half the battle. Make sure to also focus on preparing responses to fit questions that will highlight your disciplined, collaborative, and reliable work ethic.

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You have 100 balls (50 black balls and 50 white balls) and 2 buckets. How do you divide the balls into the two buckets so as to maximize the probability of selecting a black ball if 1 ball is chosen from 1 of the buckets at random?
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Investment Banking Summer Analyst

Interviewed at William Blair

4.3★
Apr 21, 2012

You have 100 balls (50 black balls and 50 white balls) and 2 buckets. How do you divide the balls into the two buckets so as to maximize the probability of selecting a black ball if 1 ball is chosen from 1 of the buckets at random?

If you had 5 red balls that contained 4 red balls and those red balls contained the original 5 red balls, then how many sets of sets of balls would I take to have a double set of red balls of varying sizes inside each next largest red ball?
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Investment Banking Vice President

Interviewed at Goldman Sachs

3.7★
Feb 3, 2012

If you had 5 red balls that contained 4 red balls and those red balls contained the original 5 red balls, then how many sets of sets of balls would I take to have a double set of red balls of varying sizes inside each next largest red ball?

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