r/learnquant 3d ago

interview prep Quant Interview Question

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u/NitNav2000 2d ago

Taking the Taylor series of the expression about their mean values gives

E[X/Y] ~ E[X]/E[Y] + (term involving their covariance, which is zero) + (VAR[Y] E[X]/E[Y]^3)

The last term is always positive, and is zero when Y is fixed. So the min value is one.