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The maximum gap between two successive leap year is?

A. 4

B. 8

C. 2

D. 1

Answer: Option B

Solution(By Examveda Team)

This can be illustrated with an example.
Ex: 1896 is a leap year.The next leap year comes in 1904 (1900 is not a leap year).

Explanation : The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365$$\frac{1}{4}$$ days-by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years.

In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.

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