10th Class

DAY-1 CALENDAR
Odd Days:

We are supposed to find the day of the week on a given date.

For this, we use the concept of 'odd days'.

In a given period, the number of days more than the complete weeks are called odd days.

Leap Year:

(i). Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year, if it is not a century.

(ii). Every 4th century is a leap year and no other century is a leap year.

Note: A leap year has 366 days.

Examples:

Each of the years 1948, 2004, 1676 etc. is a leap year.

Each of the years 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000 etc. is a leap year.

None of the years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 1800, 2100 is a leap year.

Ordinary Year:

The year which is not a leap year is called an ordinary years. An ordinary year has 365 days.

Counting of Odd Days:

1 ordinary year = 365 days = (52 weeks + 1 day.)

1 ordinary year has 1 odd day.

1 leap year = 366 days = (52 weeks + 2 days)

1 leap year has 2 odd days.

100 years = 76 ordinary years + 24 leap years

= (76 x 1 + 24 x 2) odd days = 124 odd days.

= (17 weeks + days) 5 odd days.

Number of odd days in 100 years = 5.

Number of odd days in 200 years = (5 x 2) 3 odd days.

Number of odd days in 300 years = (5 x 3) 1 odd day.

Number of odd days in 400 years = (5 x 4 + 1) 0 odd day.

Similarly, each one of 800 years, 1200 years, 1600 years, 2000 years etc. has 0 odd days.
Day of the Week Related to Odd Days:

No. of days: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Day: Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.
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1. If 8 of a month falls three days after Sunday, on what day will 17 of the month fall.
(A) Thursday (B) Wednesday (C) Friday (D) Saturday

2. Which one of the following year is a leap year?

(A) 1982 (B) 1954 (C) 1704 (D) 1978

3. Which one of the following year is not a leap year?

(A) 2000 (B) 1200 (C) 800 (D) 700
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4. If 4 September, 1987 falls on Sunday, what day will fall on 31 December 1987?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Saturday (D) Friday
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5. Mohan was born on February 29 in the year 1960. How man y birthdays will be celebrated up to
29 February 1976?
(A) 16 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 4
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6. If 5 of the month falls on two days after Monday, what day of the week will be the 19 of the month?
(A) Tuesday (B) Thursday (C) Wednesday (D) Monday
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7. A child was born on Friday 1 October in a certain year. His age on Wednesday 1 October, 1980 was
(A) 2 years (B) 4 years (C) 7 years (D) 6 years
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8. Purushottam was born on 3 March 1960. Rajesh was born 6 days before purushottam. If the Republic Day
of that year fall on Sunday, which day was Rajesh’s birthday?
(A) Friday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Monday

9. If after 3 days of tomorrow is Friday, what day was three days before yesterday?
(A) Friday (B) Monday (C) Sunday (D) Thursday

10. Day after tomorrow is ‘Ahoi-ashtami’ the same day next week falls ‘Deepawali’, if today is Sunday what will
be the day four days after Deepawali?
(A) Thursday (B) Saturday (C) Friday (D) none of these

11. Suresh is 314 days elder than Rajendra while Kamala is 70 weeks elder than Suresh. If Kamala was born
on Wednesday, On what day was Rajendra born?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday
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12. If March 17, 1980 falls on Monday, on what day would July 13 , 1980 fall?
(A) Thursday (B) Sunday (C) Saturday (D) Monday
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13. 5 January, 1984 falls on what day of the week?
(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday

14. Arriving at Fatehpur Sikri, Anand said that he was three days earlier than the time of appointment. Umesh
was 4 days later then the day of appointment. If Anand reached Fatehpur Sikri on Friday, on what day did
Umesh reach here?
(A) Thursday (B) Saturday (C) Sunday (D) Friday

15. If the day after tomorrow is X-mas day, if today is Sunday what will be the day on the first of the coming new
year?
(A) Monday (B) Sunday (C) Tuesday (D) Saturday

16. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
(A) Sunday (B) Saturday (C) Friday (D) Wednesday

17. What will be the day of the week 15th August, 2010?
(A) Sunday (B) Monday (C) Tuesday (D) Friday

18. Today is Monday. After 61 days, it will be:

(A) Wednesday (B) Saturday (C) Tuesday (D) Thursday
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19. 7 October 1986 falls on
(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Friday (D) Sunday
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20. January 1 2001 falls on
(A) Tuesday (B) Monday (C) Friday (D) Sunday
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1. C 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. D
6. C 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. B
11. C 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. C 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. B
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