if there are 7 days in a week and 52 weeks in a year how come they don't add up to 365days do the maths ?

Answer 1

it's not exactly 52 weeks

Answer 2

7 x 52 = 364

Answer 3

What, you're not satisfied with 364 days + 1 (sometimes 2) holidays?
365 isn't divisible by 12, either.
The ony factors of 365 are 5 and 73. You can work with 5 pretty well, but 73 is a monster.
366 = 2*3*61 ends up with another large prime, and you have to subtract a day.
364 = 2*2*7*13 -- all fairly small primes. Anyone for a 13 month year? (maybe 14 months?---nah)

Answer 4

According to scientists there are 365 and1/4 days in an year. If one obseves the calender cosely you will find that the 1st week has a day or two overlappin from the previous year with 2 on a leap year. The 52 weeks is all a matter of rounding up since there is no need of stating an year has 53 weeks when the 53rd week has only a day or two depending whether it's a leap year.

Answer 5

Jan - 31
Feb - 28 or 29
Mar - 31
Apr - 30
May - 31
Jun - 30
Jul - 31
Aug - 31
Sept - 30
Oct - 31
Nov - 30
Dec - 31

Adding the number of days for each month, we get 365 or 366. So the total number of days per year is 365 or 366 days (for leap years).

The 52 weeks per year is derived from the number of whole weeks derived when 365 is divided by 7, which is 52 weeks and 1 day.

Answer 6

The year used in the Gregorian Calendar for measuring time is based on the time the Planet Earth takes to make one complete revolution around the sun. This time has been computed to be approximately 365 1/4 days for "ordinary" years and 366 days for "leap" years. The year has been further sub-divided into months and weeks for our convenience. While the week has been fixed as equivalent to seven days, the months are allowed to vary in length from 31 to 28 days, in order to accommodate the length of the year. So, as you can see, it is not really maths which is at work here, but a clever attempt to synchronize the seasons of the year within the period of 365.25 days. If this were not done, a time would come when winter would run into spring, spring into summer and summer into autumn and so on

Answer 7

Wasn't this a carry over from many companies that paid every week. They paid based on full weeks, the remainder was carried over to the next year, so like others said it is " Full Weeks" per year.Also note it is a rounded figure ...

It is kind of like saying that every month has four weeks to it, but if you run 4 ( 12 ) = 48 weeks total
48 ( 7 ) = 336 days total. These are not precise figures they are rounded off numbers that is why they don't add up exactly,
By The Way, one full year does have 365.25 days to it, Leap Year accounts for the fractional part of a day.

Answer 8

Because there is a bit more than 52 weeks in a year, but there are 52 whole weeks.

Answer 9

Because there are either 365 or 366 days in a year!!this makes it more than 52 weeks in year! We use 13 four weekly months to pay our employees! Now this is a real killer answer - so you should vote for it!!

Answer 10

They add up to 364 and technically 1/4. That is why we have a leap year every 4 years to make up for the 1/4 of a yearWe only say 365 because it is easier and less complicated than saying 364.25.

Answer 11

because each year we have a 1/4 day, that is why every four years is a leap year and they add a day on... so the year isnt exactly 52 weeks at all...