{"id":14690,"date":"2023-04-16T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-formula-of-probability-find-probability-that-leap-year-has-52-sundays\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:46:13","slug":"what-is-formula-of-probability-find-probability-that-leap-year-has-52-sundays","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-formula-of-probability-find-probability-that-leap-year-has-52-sundays\/","title":{"rendered":"What is formula of Probability? Find probability that leap year has 52 Sundays."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a probability question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>The probability formula is defined as the possibility of an event to happen is equal to the ratio of the number of favourable outcomes and the total number of outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>A leap year can have 52 Sundays or 53 Sundays. In a leap year, there are 366 days out of which there are 52 complete weeks &amp; remaining 2 days. Now, these two days can be (Sat, Sun) (Sun, Mon) (Mon, Tue) (Tue, Wed) (Wed, Thur) (Thur, Friday) (Friday, Sat).<\/p>\n<p>So there are total 7 cases out of which (Sat, Sun) (Sun, Mon) are two favorable cases. So, P (53 Sundays) = 2 \/ 7<\/p>\n<p>Now, P(52 Sundays) + P(53 Sundays) = 1<\/p>\n<p>So, P (52 Sundays) = 1 &#8211; P(53 Sundays) = 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c (2\/7) = 5\/7<\/p>\n<div class=\"questions-requirements\">\n<p class=\"requirement\">Requirements:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a probability question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. The probability formula is defined as the possibility of an event to happen is equal to the ratio of the number of favourable outcomes and the total number of outcomes. A leap year can have 52 Sundays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[725],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14690"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14690"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}