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Find the probability that a leap year selected at random, will contain 53 Mondays.

A leap year has 366 days = 52 weeks and 2 days

Sample Space = {(Sun, Mon), (Mon, Tue), (Tue, Wed), (Wed, Thurs), (Thurs, Fri), (Fri, Sat), (Sat, Sun)}


E (a Monday) = {(Sun, Mon), (Mon, Tue)}


⸫ P (E) =


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