Velma has exactly one week to learn all 71 japanes hiragana characters. If she can learn at most a dozen of them on any one day and will only have time to learn four of them of Friday. What is the least number of hiragana characters that Veima will have to learn on Saturday?

Answer

To solve the problem step by step, we will break down the information provided and calculate the least number of hiragana characters Velma has to learn on Saturday.

### Step 1: Understand the total number of characters
Velma has to learn a total of 71 Japanese hiragana characters.

### Step 2: Identify the learning schedule
Velma has one week (7 days) to learn these characters. The days of the week are:
- Sunday
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday

### Step 3: Determine the learning limit for each day
- Velma can learn at most 12 characters on any day except for Friday.
- On Friday, it is specified that she can only learn 4 characters.

### Step 4: Calculate the maximum characters learned from Sunday to Thursday
Since Velma can learn a maximum of 12 characters each day from Sunday to Thursday, we calculate the total for these 5 days:
- Sunday: 12 characters
- Monday: 12 characters
- Tuesday: 12 characters
- Wednesday: 12 characters
- Thursday: 12 characters

Total characters learned from Sunday to Thursday:
\[ 12 \text{ (Sunday)} + 12 \text{ (Monday)} + 12 \text{ (Tuesday)} + 12 \text{ (Wednesday)} + 12 \text{ (Thursday)} = 60 \text{ characters} \]

### Step 5: Add the characters learned on Friday
On Friday, Velma learns 4 characters. Therefore, the total characters learned from Sunday to Friday is:
\[ 60 \text{ (from Sunday to Thursday)} + 4 \text{ (Friday)} = 64 \text{ characters} \]

### Step 6: Calculate the remaining characters to be learned on Saturday
To find out how many characters Velma needs to learn on Saturday, we subtract the total characters learned from the total characters she needs to learn:
\[ 71 \text{ (total characters)} - 64 \text{ (characters learned by Friday)} = 7 \text{ characters} \]

### Conclusion
Thus, the least number of hiragana characters that Velma will have to learn on Saturday is **7 characters**.

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