ibps-so 2019 · Question 65 of 300

The eight-digit reference number printed upon a challan is to be examined by the clerk who receives it at the counter. How many pairs of digits are there in the number 3 7 1 9 4 8 2 6, each of which has as many digits between them in the number as there are between them when the digits of the number are arranged in ascending order?

1. AOne
2. BTwo
3. CThree
4. DFive
5. EFour Directions (Q42–Q46) : The passage reproduced below is a note upon the writing of the minutes of a meeting, a duty that falls sooner or later upon every o cer who sits upon a committee. In the passage given below there are ve blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each number ve words are suggested, of which one ts the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case, and read the whole of the passage through once before you settle upon any one of the blanks. A minute of a meeting is among the least __(42)__ documents that an institution produces and among the most consequential. Its purpose is not to __(43)__ everything that was said, but to record what was decided and upon what grounds. A minute that is too full is as __(44)__ as one that is too thin, for it buries the decision in the debate. Written well, it protects the absent member, who must act upon a decision he never heard argued, and it __(45)__ the person who took the decision to the reasons he gave for it. Institutions that treat the minute as a mere formality commonly discover its value only when a decision is __(46)__.Correct