2000 AMC 12 Problems/Problem 18
- The following problem is from both the 2000 AMC 12 #18 and 2000 AMC 10 #25, so both problems redirect to this page.
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In year , the day of the year is a Tuesday. In year , the day is also a Tuesday. On what day of the week did the th day of year occur?
Solution 1
There are either or days between the first two dates depending upon whether or not year is a leap year (since the February 29th of the leap year would come between the 300th day of year and 200th day of year ). Since divides into but not , for both days to be a Tuesday, year must be a leap year.
Hence, year is not a leap year, and so since there are days between the date in years , this leaves a remainder of upon division by . Since we are subtracting days, we count 5 days before Tuesday, which gives us
Solution 2
The day of year and the day of year are Tuesdays. If there were the same number of days in year and year the day of year will be a Tuesday. But year is a leap year because so the day of year is a Tuesday. It follows that the day of year is
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Video Solution
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