Jane Street

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Quantitative Researcher Interview
Jane Street

A coin is flipped 100 times, and you may ask one yes/no question about the sequence of results. You must then guess the entire sequence. You earn one dollar for each correct guess and lose one dollar for each incorrect guess. Find a good strategy and compute its expected return.

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