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Exercise
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Our calendar has a 400-year cycle. B. H. Brown noticed that the
number of times the thirteenth of the month falls on each of the days of the week in the 4800 months of a cycle is as follows:
Day | Frequency |
---|---|
Sunday | 687 |
Monday | 685 |
Tuesday | 685 |
Wednesday | 687 |
Thursday | 684 |
Friday | 688 |
Saturday | 684 |
From this he deduced that the thirteenth was more likely to fall on Friday than on any other day. Explain what he meant by this.