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Passage-Based Questions
Passage 1

Given below is a sequence of digits. Observe and answer the questions that follow:

883338383888383338883383
1. How many times is 3 immediately followed by 8?

(a) 8 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 5
2. How many times are three 8s occurring together?

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
3. How many times is 3 coming in between two 8s?

(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 1
4. How many times is 8 immediately followed by 83?

(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) 3
5. State True or False:

In the sequence, digit 8 appears more number of times than digit 3.

Passage 2

Mr Garg, Mr Singh, Ms Dubey and Ms Neelam are four teachers in a school teaching classes
VI to VIII. Mr Garg can teach English and Science only. Mr Singh can teach Mathematics and
Science only. Ms Neelam cannot teach Hindi. Ms Dubey teaches only one subject and there is a
teacher for all the subjects mentioned in the table below. Fill in the table using (3) and (5) and
answer the questions that follow.

Subject Mr Garg Mr Singh Ms Dubey Ms Neelam
English
Hindi
Mathematics
Science
1. How many teachers can teach Mathematics?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

2. Which subject is Ms Dubey teaching?

(a) English (b) Hindi (c) Mathematics (d) Science
3. Which subject can be taught by maximum number of teachers?

(a) English (b) Hindi (c) Mathematics (d) Science
4. How many teachers can teach exactly two subjects?

(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 2
5. State True or False:
If it is mandatory for a teacher to take 24 periods in a week, then amongst the four teachers
a total of 96 periods can be allotted in the school’s timetable.

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