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A,B and C choose a integer between 1 and 100 in turn to minimize the difference between the integer they choose and an unknown uniformly distributed random integer. B knows what A chooses and C knows what A,B choose. What is A's optimal strategy?
First round: basic probability, combinatorics. A bear wants to catch 3 fish from a river. when he has caught 3 fish, he'll leave. when a fish comes, there is a 1/2 chance he'll catch it. what's the probability that the 5th fish will not be caught?
1. code the n term of Fibonacci, using iteration, then use recursion only, then use recursion and memorization. What is the time complexity and space complexity for all three cases. 2. Linear regression of X and y, X is n-dimensional and y is 1-dimensional, how would beta, standard error of beta, r2, and t-stat of beta change if you duplicate the data. Can you explain the results intuitively? 3 London has p probability of rain. You have 3 friends, they have 2/3 probability of telling truth, and 1/3 probability lying. Suppose all friends tell you rain, what is the probability it rains? 4. Leetcode
Chance that a student passes the test is 10%. What is the chance that out of 400 students AT LEAST 50 pass the test? Check the closest answer: The offered answers were 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%.
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You are given an array, and a number x. Determines whether or not there exist two elements in in the input array whose sum is exactly x, efficiently.
There is a line, put two points on the line(uniformly distributed) then we have three lines if we break the line using the points. What is the probability that I can form a triangle with these lines?
(Can't remember clearly) Given the process GBM(r,sigma?) of USD/GBP price in USD risk neutral measure, what is the GBP/USD in GBP? Drift term in choices are (-r, -r-sigma^2, -r+sigma^2)
A, B and C are time series and the following rhos represent their correlation coefficients. rho(A,B)=0.7, rho(B,C)=0.8, what is rho(A,C)? Why the correlation matrix is positive semi-definite?
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