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leap year tuesday

by maihuna » Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:56 am
If a leap year is selected at random, what is the chance that it will contain 53
tuesdays?
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Re: leap year tuesday

by dtweah » Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:53 am
maihuna wrote:If a leap year is selected at random, what is the chance that it will contain 53
tuesdays?
Leap year has 366 days. 52 weeks (these have 52 Tuesdays) and 2 days. For there to be 53 tuesdays, one of the additional 2 days must be a TUESDAY.

There are 7 days in a week. 2C1/7=2/7
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