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The probability that a non - leap your selected at random will contains 53 Sunday is

A non - leap year has 365 days and therefore 52 weeks and 1 day. This 1 day may be Sunday or Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday or Saturday.

Thus, out of 7 possibilities, 1 favorable event is the event that the one day is Sunday.


∴ Required probability = 1/7

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