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The 2nd of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3rd of July in that year?

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Find the total number of days between the two dates and reduce that number modulo 7 to see how many days the week-day shifts forward.
Updated On: Jul 20, 2026
  • Thursday
  • Friday
  • Saturday
  • Sunday
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The Correct Option is D

Solution and Explanation

A cleaner way to handle calendar-shift problems is to assign each day of the week a number and work with arithmetic modulo 7 instead of counting day by day.

Let Sunday $=0$, Monday $=1$, Tuesday $=2$, Wednesday $=3$, Thursday $=4$, Friday $=5$, Saturday $=6$. We are told June 2 corresponds to Thursday, so June 2 $\equiv 4 \pmod 7$.

The number of days from June 2 to July 3 is $(30-2)+3 = 31$ days, since June has 30 days.

The day-of-week value for July 3 is then $(4+31) \bmod 7$. Since $31 = 28+3$ and $28$ is exactly $4 \times 7$, this reduces to $(4+3) \bmod 7 = 7 \bmod 7 = 0$.

A value of $0$ corresponds to Sunday in the numbering scheme set up above.

\[\boxed{\text{July 3 is a Sunday}}\]
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