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What would be the probability that leap year would have exactly 52 Tuesdays?

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What would be the probability that leap year would have exactly 52 Tuesdays?
posted Dec 30, 2016 by anonymous

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The probability here as asked "exactly"
Is actually this
Now , as we know that a leap year has 366 days
This means if we want to have exactly 52 Tuesdays then the remaining two days must not be a Tuesday
The outcomes can be either
(Sun,Mon) (Mon,Tues),(Tues,wed) (Wed,thurs) (thurs,fri) (fri,sat)
(Sat,sun) .now the favourable outcomes are only 5 , therefore it should be 5/7
It is 5/7

answer Jan 1, 2017 by Sachite Anand
You are right.
Oh I didn't consider the exactly part !!! How Stupid !
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The probability is 100% because any year including a leap year has atleast 52×7 = 364 days in it repeating all the seven days 52 times.

answer Dec 30, 2016 by Tejas Naik
Its exactly not atleast please cross-check.
If I say exactly there, then it means every year has only 364 days.
What I meant there was every year has a minimum of 52×7 = 364 days in it.
It means any year will run out of 364 days in it before its over ie., after 365 or in the leap year case 366 days.
I thought You were talking about the answer. I didn't pause to think that you might have been talking about the my understanding of the question !!! LOL.
It looks to me that exactly 52 Tuesdays means it should not have 53 Tuesdays.
Yeah I made a mistake here. Somehow I thought he was asking the probability of a day repeating 52 times in a year or a leap year. And the word exactly skipped past my head.
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