If the meetings of a project team are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and no two meetings can occur on consecutive days, which day can be added for an additional meeting without violating the schedule?
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If the meetings of a project team are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and no two meetings can occur on consecutive days, which day can be added for an additional meeting without violating the schedule?
Tuesday
Thursday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday can be added as it does not fall on a consecutive day with the existing meetings.
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Q: If the meetings of a project team are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and no two meetings can occur on consecutive days, which day can be added for an additional meeting without violating the schedule?
Solution: Thursday can be added as it does not fall on a consecutive day with the existing meetings.
Steps: 8
Step 1: Identify the days when the project team has meetings. These days are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Step 2: Note that no two meetings can occur on consecutive days. This means that if there is a meeting on one day, there cannot be a meeting on the day immediately before or after it.
Step 3: Look at the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Step 4: Check the days around the existing meeting days:
- After Monday, the next day is Tuesday (not allowed because it is consecutive).
- After Wednesday, the next day is Thursday (not consecutive, so this day is a candidate).
- After Friday, the next day is Saturday (not allowed because it is consecutive).
Step 5: Since Thursday is not next to any of the meeting days, it can be added for an additional meeting.
