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If a leap-leap year selected at random, the chance that it will contain 53 Sundays is

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37
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17
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1367
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None of these
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Solution

The correct option is A 37
A leap-leap year has 367 days i.e. 52 complete week and three days more. These three days will be three consecutive days of a week. A leap-leap year will have 53 Sundays if out of the three consecutive days of a week selected at random one is a Sunday.
Let S be the sample space and E be the event that out of the three consecutive days of a week one is Sunday, then
S= {(Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,(Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday),(Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday),(Wednesday,Thursday,Friday),(Thursday,Friday,Saturday),(Friday,Saturday,Sunday),(Saturday,Sunday,Monday)}
n(S)=7
and E={(Sunday,Monday,Tuesday),((Friday,Saturday,Sunday),(Saturday,Sunday,Monday)}
n(E)=3
Hence, Required probability P(E)=n(E)n(S)=37

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