Probability Questions for Prop Trading Interviews
A prop trading round does not test probability the way a textbook does. This set is the overlap - the probability questions that actually turn up in this format.
26 questions, 13 of them free to practise right now. The split is 7 easy, 19 medium.
- A perfect-power dice sumEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A repeated digit in the PINEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Correlation of two event indicatorsEasyProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Sharing your weekday of birthEasyProbabilityView →
- The costliest roulette bet on the tableEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- A point near the cone's baseMediumProbabilityCalculusView →
- Density of a sum of two uniformsMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Fair outcome from a biased coinMediumProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Full housesMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Gambler's ruinMediumProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Sum of independent PoissonsMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Which deck for two reds?MediumProbabilityView →
- Whose draw is larger?MediumProbabilityView →
- Both sixes given at least oneEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Absorption probability on a lineMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- Arrivals before the rival streamMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- Both even given an even sumMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Buyer count in a thinned arrival streamMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- First to roll a sixMediumProbability Premium
- Five distinct ranksMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
- Joint default rangeMediumProbabilityFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Rolls until a face repeatsMediumProbabilityExpected Value Premium
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Two uniforms summing past 1.5MediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
- Within distance d on the unit intervalMediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
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