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You have 20 cards. 1 is black the rest are red. You keep drawing cards and get $1 for each red, but if you draw the black the game ends and you get nothing. How do you play and what’s the average payout? Now drawing the black card makes your score go negative, but you can continue drawing cards. What’s the strategy and expected payout now?
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Quantitative Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Dec 11, 2025

You have 20 cards. 1 is black the rest are red. You keep drawing cards and get $1 for each red, but if you draw the black the game ends and you get nothing. How do you play and what’s the average payout? Now drawing the black card makes your score go negative, but you can continue drawing cards. What’s the strategy and expected payout now?

Phone interview. 2 Probability questions. First one about rolling a dice. You may reroll at certain price. Find the expected pay off. Second one about two players tossing a coin BO7. Say A bets on heads and B bets on tails. Given that the game lasted 7 rounds and first round's a head. What's the probability that B wins?
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Quantitative Analyst Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Aug 21, 2023

Phone interview. 2 Probability questions. First one about rolling a dice. You may reroll at certain price. Find the expected pay off. Second one about two players tossing a coin BO7. Say A bets on heads and B bets on tails. Given that the game lasted 7 rounds and first round's a head. What's the probability that B wins?

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