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Time and Calendar                                                                                      149


              Months               Number of days                     Months                Number of days

              January                       31                        July                          31

              February                  28 or 29                      August                        31

              March                         31                        September                     30

              April                         30                        October                       31


              May                           31                        November                      30
              June                          30                        December                      31



             Absorbing Facts                                           Fact-o-meter

          A month has 30 or 31 days. February has 28 days           To determine whether a year is a leap year
          in a normal year but in a leap year, it has 29 days.      or not, divide the year by 4. If the year is
          A year has 365 days normally but a leap year has          completely divisible by 4, then it is a leap
          366 days.                                                 year otherwise it is a normal year.




                                                  Exercise 11.3


          1. Fill in the blanks.

                (a)  A year has ___________ days in a normal year.

                (b)  A leap year has ___________ days.
                (c)  A year has ___________ months.

               (d)  February has generally ___________ days.

                (e)  In a leap year, February has ___________ days.

                (f)  There are ___________ hours in a day.

                (g)  If today is Sunday, then yesterday was ___________.
                (h)  If yesterday was Tuesday, then tomorrow will be ___________.

                (i)  First month of the year is ___________.

                (j)  Seventh month of the year is ___________.

          2. Convert the following into minutes.

                (a)  7 hours              (b)  9 hours              (c)  2 hours             (d)  5 hours


          3. Convert the following into hours.
                (a)  8 days               (b)  4 days               (c)  2 days              (d)  5 days
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