Citadel Securities

Interview Question

Quantitative Researcher Interview
Citadel Securities

You regress X1 against Y and obtain an R-squared value of 0.1. Then, you regress X2 against Y and obtain an R-squared value of 0.2. What is the maximum possible R-squared when regressing both X1 and X2 against Y together?

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