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Jun 09'24

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.