Tag: combinatorics
Interview Questions
- The chicken nugget problem
- Cutting a gold chain to pay rent
- Handshakes at a party
- Six people, and a triangle you can't avoid
- Splitting a team and scoring the products
- How many shapes can an order-matching tree take?
- The ballot problem, ties allowed
- Will the stack ever underflow?
- Will a random walk reach +3 in eight steps?
- Counting paths that touched a high before finishing
- The ballot problem
- Banach's matchbox with a favored pocket
- Which matchbox empties first when they start unequal?
- The third head on the seventh toss
- The interrupted game (problem of points)
- Banach's matchbox problem
- Three friends all in a row
- Two rivals kept apart
- Seated directly across the table
- Keeping the math books together
- Two friends seated together
- Probability of a flush
- Probability of exactly one pair
- Probability of two pair
- Full house in a 32-card deck
- Probability of a full house
- Will the running score ever dip below zero?