Question: To explain the leap year, let's use the example that if the sun is behind by 0.25 days (6 hours), then, in four years, the

To explain the leap year, let's use the example that if the sun is behind by 0.25 days (6 hours), then, in four years, the sun is behind by 0.25 days x 4 = 1 day (24 hours). We add a day, 2/29, to the fourth year so that the sun will catch up with our calendar perfectly. But the sun is only behind by 0.2422 days. In 4 years, the sun will be behind by 0.2422 days x 4 = 0.9688 days. We add one day on 2/29, which is a little too much. 1 day minus 0.9688 days = 0.0312 days. Then, in 100 years, we add too much by 0.0312 days x 25 (25 leap years in 100 years) = 0.78 days. Therefore, there is no leap year in every hundred years. Then again, we have to add a leap day (2/29) every 400 years. Use a table to show whether a year from 2000 to 2100 is a leap year or not. Use four columns in your table so it will not be too long

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