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1,322 questions in the style trading and research firms ask, from probability and brainteasers to options, statistics and coding. Every question is open to read; the 50 in the free sample show their worked solutions here.
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- Compute 48 × 52 in your head.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation · Free solution
- Two numbers sit just below a hundred. Compute 97 × 96.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation · Free solution
- Square 65 in your head.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- Compute 125 × 48.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- Write 1/7 as a decimal to four places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- Write 3/16 as a decimal.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- A stock falls 20%. By what percentage must it rise to return to its starting price?Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- A position gains 10% one day and loses 10% the next.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- You have a 30% weight at a price of 102 and a 70% weight at 98.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- A game pays $60 with probability 1/3 and costs you $15 otherwise.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- A bookmaker offers odds of 3 to 1 against. What probability does that imply?Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- A daily return series has a standard deviation of 1.5%.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- Compute 5/8−1/3 as a decimal to four places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- What is the sum of the first 20 odd numbers, 1+3+5+⋯+39?Mental maths and numerical fluency · Foundation
- Estimate √50 to two decimal places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Without writing anything down, multiply 17 by 23.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Compute 999².Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Compute 84÷0.035.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- A fee is 35 basis points of notional. On $2,000,000, how many dollars is that?Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Estimate ln(1.05) to three decimal places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Estimate 1.03¹⁰ to two decimal places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- Estimate 1/1.08 to four decimal places.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- An interest rate rises from 4% to 5%.Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- What is e^(0.1) to four decimal places?Mental maths and numerical fluency · Applied
- A four-digit PIN allows repeated digits. How many are there?Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- Five people sit in a row.Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- What is the smallest group of people that guarantees at least three share a birth month?Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- Six people sit at a round table.Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- A desk can hold positions in any of n instruments and takes k identical lots…Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- A path from (0,0) to (4,4) takes unit steps right or up.Counting and combinatorics · Foundation
- How many distinct arrangements are there of the letters in the word BANANA?Counting and combinatorics · Applied
- A four-character password is drawn from the 26 lowercase letters, repeats allowed.Counting and combinatorics · Applied
- How many integers from 1 to 1000 are divisible by 2, 3 or 5?Counting and combinatorics · Applied
- How many squares, of any size, are there on an 8 × 8 chessboard?Counting and combinatorics · Applied
- Eight traders are paired up for a desk-swap day, four pairs in all, and the…Counting and combinatorics · Applied
- A trade idea works independently with probability 0.25 each time it is tried.Probability · Foundation
- You roll a fair six-sided die, then choose whether to re-roll once.Probability · Applied
- You simulate a fair seven-sided die by rolling a fair six-sided die twice and…Probability · Applied
- Two fair dice are rolled and you are told at least one shows a six.Probability · Applied
- Cereal boxes each contain one of ten equally likely coupons.Probability · Applied