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What is the probability that an ordinary year has 53 Mondays?

An ordinary year has 365 days consisting of 52 weeks and 1 day.

Let E be the event of that one day being Monday


This day can be any day of the week.


∴ P (of this day to be Monday) = P (E) = 1/7


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