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Combinatorics Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Months of the year are usually labelled numerically by '01' for January, '02' for February, and so on, through to '12' for December. Lydia notices that during January, the number of letters in the name of the month is greater than the month's numerical label (i.e. 7>17 > 1). For how many days during 2024 will the date have that property?

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