The local pool is open Monday through Friday. Swimming classes meet every day except Tuesday. Diving classes meet every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Water polo games are played every day except Monday and Wednesday. Water ballet classes are held on Thursday. Scuba diving instruction is held every day.

• Which is the least busy day at the pool?

Explain in detail how you found your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.

Be sure to understand the problem before getting started with a strategy. You need to find which day of the week is the least busiest day at the pool finding the schedule of the pool for the week.

After understanding the problem, look back over the strategies and determine which one will help you the most. In this problem it may be more helpful to make a chart of the schedule for the pool using logical reasoning as well.

Let's go ahead and begin making the chart.

Using the clues and information from the problem and placing an "x" in the table on the days that the pool is being used you end up with the above.

Looking at the table, you should notice that Tuesday is least busy day while Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are the busiest. But since the question is asking you to find the least busiest day, your answer would be Tuesday, letter C.

The other portion of this problem would have you explain your answer as to how you arrived at your solution. Be sure to state the strategy you used and then clearly state how you used the information in the problem to fill in the table or schedule.