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You then choose your own three-toss pattern, and whichever appears first in a sequence of fair tosses wins. What is your winning probability under the best choice?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-probability?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#probability-065"}, {"q": "A fair coin is tossed four times. What is the probability that no two consecutive tosses are both heads?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-probability?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#probability-092"}, {"q": "A classifier has 40 true positives and 60 false negatives. What is its recall?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-statistics-ml?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#statistics-ml-009"}, {"q": "Two fair dice are rolled. What is the expected absolute difference?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-probability?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#probability-039"}, {"q": "A stock is at 100 and in one year will be either 130 or 90. Interest rates are zero, and analysts give the up move a probability of 0.8. What is a one-year call struck at 100 worth?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-market-making?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#market-making-036"}, {"q": "Make a market on the sum of the two highest of three fair dice. What is the fair value?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-market-making?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#market-making-035"}, {"q": "A coin is tossed until either HHH or THH appears. What is the probability HHH comes first?", "u": "https://geodesicpartners.co.uk/quant-questions-probability?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post#probability-042"}, {"q": "One coin is rolled without slipping all the way around the rim of a second, identical, fixed coin until it returns to its starting point. 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