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Make a Market on Two Dice
OptiverSIG / Susquehanna
An interviewer asks you to make a market on the sum of two fair six-sided dice. Before you quote a bid and an ask, you need the fair value. What is it?
Approach
Expectation is linear — value each die separately.
Answer
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