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Step-by-step walkthrough of a technical interview question involving a classic coin toss problem with recursion

This question is suitable as practice for Quant Trading, Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Developer, Desk Quant and Data Scientist technical interviews

Question:
2 players, A and B, take turns flipping an unfair coin with the probability of heads = p.First player to flip a heads win. If player A starts first, what is the probability that A will win the game?

Timestamps:
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[Probability Interview 8] 2 player coin game (Goldman Sachs):
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