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What is the probability of getting $53$ Mondays in a leap year?
Given: $53$ Mondays in a leap year.
To do: To find the probability of getting $53$ Mondays in a leap year.
Solution:
$1$ year$=365$ days
A leap year has $366$ days
A year has $52$ weeks. Hence there will be $52$ Mondays for sure.
$52$ weeks$=52\times7 = 364$ days
$366-364=2$ days
In a leap year there will be $52$ Mondays and $2$ days will be left.
These $2$ days can be:
Sunday, Monday
Monday, Tuesday
Tuesday, Wednesday
Wednesday, Thursday
Thursday, Friday
Friday, Saturday
Saturday, Sunday
Of these total $7$ outcomes, the favourable outcomes are $2$.
Hence the probability of getting $53$ Mondays in a leap year is $\frac{2}{7}$.
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