To celebrate the first day of a leap year, I taught my dog to jump through a hoop. It was a Sunday. When he taught me the same trick the first day of the next year, it was a _?_
A) Sunday
B) Monday
C) Tuesday
D) Wednesday
Is it B?
Nope. Leap years have 366 days, which is 52 weeks plus 2 days.
To determine the answer, we need to understand how leap years work and the relationship between the days of the week and the calendar year.
A leap year occurs every four years, except for years that are divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. For example, the year 2020 was a leap year, but the year 1900 was not.
The first day of the leap year is on a specific day of the week, let's say Sunday. In a non-leap year, the first day of the next year will be one day ahead, so it would be Monday. However, since this is a leap year, the first day of the next year will be two days ahead.
In this case, since the first day of the leap year is Sunday, the first day of the next year will be Tuesday (since it's two days ahead of Sunday).
Therefore, the correct answer is C) Tuesday.