Jane Street

Interview Question

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Jane Street

Consider a game where you roll a fair six-sided die. What is the expected value of a single roll? What is the expected value if you can roll twice and either keep the result of the first roll, or discard it and are forced to keep the second roll? How does this extend to three rolls or an infinite number of rolls?

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