Final answer:
If March 1 is a Tuesday, then by counting the days to April 8 and dividing by 7, we determine that April 8 is a Friday in that same year.
Step-by-step explanation:
Calculating the Day of the Week for a Future Date
If March 1 is a Tuesday, to find out what day of the week April 8 will be, you can use the following step-by-step method:
- Count the total number of days between March 1 and April 8.
- Since March has 31 days, there are 31 - 1 = 30 days left in March after the 1st.
- Adding the 8 days of April, the total is 30 + 8 = 38 days.
- To find out how many weeks and extra days this period contains, divide 38 by 7 (the number of days in a week).
- 38 divided by 7 is 5 weeks, with 3 days remaining (since 38 = 5*7 + 3).
- Since the weeks do not affect the day of the week (they are full cycles), we only consider the remaining days.
- If you start on Tuesday and move forward 3 days, you would get to Friday.
Therefore, April 8 of the same year will be a Friday.