• Question: why does a year consist of 365 days and a day of 24 hours

    Asked by anon-238824 to Hannah, binuraj, Alice on 18 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Hi made389gas,

      The Earth’s orbit around the Sun takes 365.24 days. The Earth takes approximately 365.24 days to go around the Sun, and our calendar year is 365 days. To fix this, we put on extra days in some years, called leap years. ie in every 4 years we add an extra day to compensate.

    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      Binuraj’s answer is correct and summarises this really well 🙂

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