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Calendar
We have seen different kinds of calendars in the market like wall calendars, desk calendars,
etc. They may look different but contain the same information.

• There are 7 days in a week. They are
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• There are 52 weeks and 1 day in a year.

• There are 365 days in a year.
• There are 12 months in a year. They are
January, February, March, April, May,
June, July, August, September, October,

November and December. Each month
has four weeks and a few days.
• We need the day, month and year to write
a date. The most common way of writing
a date follows the pattern—day, month
and year. For example, 7 November 2017,
7.11.2017, 7.11.17, 7/11/2017 and 7/11/17.

Leap Year

A year in which February has 29 days instead of 28 days is called a leap year. It occurs
every four years. For example, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 were leap years.

Thus, we can say that a leap year has 52 weeks and 2 days, i.e., 366 days with February
having 29 days.

Exercise 8.4

1. Fill in the blanks.
(a) Monday comes before _____________.

(b) Starting from Monday, the fourth day of the week is _____________.
(c) The fifth month of the year is _____________.
(d) If the last month was September, the next month will be _____________.

(e) If tomorrow is Sunday, yesterday was _____________.
(f) Two months which consecutively have 31 days are _____________ and
_____________.

(g) If today is 31 July, tomorrow will be _____________.
(h) Two months after October is _____________.

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