Question

Does February has 29 days?

Answer 1

Hint: We will first see how many days does February have in normal years. And then, we will see how many days does February has, when it is a leap year. Thus, we will have an answer.

Complete step by step answer:
We will look at both the kind of years that is normal as well as a leap year.
We know that a general year has 365 days. These 365 days are distributed as follows:
January – 31
February – 28
March – 31
April – 30
May – 31
June – 30
July – 31
August – 31
September – 30
October – 31
November – 30
December – 31
Now, these total sum up to 365 which completely forms a year.
Now, we also know that a leap year has 366 days and they are distributed as follows:
January – 31
February – 29
March – 31
April – 30
May – 31
June – 30
July – 31
August – 31
September – 30
October – 31
November – 30
December – 31
Now, we see that February does consist of 29 days.

Hence, February does have 29 days but only in leap years.

Note:
The students must know the fact about a leap year because it is very interesting and useful. A leap year occurs every fourth year. For it 2000 was a leap year, then 2004 will also be a leap year. Every year we get an increase of one-fourth of a day. Thus, every fourth year, we get a complete day which eventually accounts for 366 days in that year.
Fun Fact:- 4 million people in the world are born on leap days which is February 29. You may use probability to see that there is an extremely minimal probability for a baby to be born on that day. The babies born on that day are also called Leapers or Leaping other than their own name.