Combinatorics Interview Questions for Quant Analysts
Quant Analysts get asked combinatorics differently from other quant roles - the emphasis shifts with what the job actually does. This is that slice.
25 questions, 16 of them free to practise right now. The split is 14 easy, 10 medium, 1 hard.
- 1 immediately before 2EasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A perfect-power dice sumEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A repeated digit in the PINEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- An even palindromeEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Codes with exactly one vowelEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Committee with both sexesEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Counting arithmetic triplesEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Distinct-digit numbers using a 7EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Divisible by 2 or 3EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Drawing a matching pair of socksEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Merging two round-robinsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Repeated digit on a plateEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Seating with a gapEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Variance of hearts in eight cardsMediumCombinatoricsStatisticsView →
- Two random subsets that overlapHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A family clustered at a round tableMediumCombinatorics Premium
- A relay team with a feudMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Four distinct birth monthsMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
- Identical balls, no empty boxMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Keeping a couple togetherMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Math books stay togetherMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Paths dodging a closed intersectionMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Squares on a chessboardMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasers Premium
- Two face cardsMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
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