[Solved] Which of the following is not a leap century year? (2024)

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Which of the following is not a leap century year? ›

For example; the century years 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but the century years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not.

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are.

It is a century year so it must be completely divisible by 400. As, 2100 is not completely divisible by 400, therefore it is not a leap year.

According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.

To be a leap year, the year number must be divisible by four – except for end-of-century years, which must be divisible by 400. This means that the year 2000 was a leap year, although 1900 was not.

There were no exceptions. The “Gregorian” reform did not take place until 1582, which eliminated / skipped the leap day if the year is divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. Yes. 1500 was a leap year, because at that time the Julian calendar was still used in many countries.

"The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, leap year is skipped.

What's next for leap years. Therefore, 800, 1200 and 2000 are leap years — but 1700, 1900 and 2100 are not, because even though they are divisible by four, they are not divisible by 400.

Any year which has 366 days is called a leap year. During a leap year, one day will be added to the month of February making the total number of days in this month as 29. We can call all the other years as non-leap years. We know that non-leap years contain 365 days.

Which leap year is skipped? ›

Leap years divisible by 100, like the year 1900, are skipped unless they're also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case they're observed. Nobody alive remembers the last lost leap day, but dropping those three leap days every 400 years keeps the calendar on time. The next skipped leap year will be in 2100.

But we consider each year 365 days and add one day to the year every four years in order to have the leap year and also to adjust the time: 4∗0.25=1. But there are some occasions where there is an 8-year interval between consecutive leap years. For example, the leap year after 1896 was 1904. 1900 wasn't a leap year.

Therefore, 1800 is not a leap century year. Hence, the correct answer is 1800.

“A leap year is every 4 years, but not every 100 years, then again every 400 years.” You can see that before 2000; 1700, 1800, 1900 wasn't a Leap Year because it was in “100 year non-leap year cycle”, last Leap Year before 2000 was 1600 as it belongs to Leap Year in “every 400 years cycle”.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII adopted the Gregorian calendar, which we now use, and specified that all years that can be divided by four are leap years, with the exception of century years, which would have to be divisible by 400 to be considered leap years — so while 2000 was a leap year, 2100 and 2200 will not be.

For example 100 is not leap year even though it is divisible by 4 but as it is century year it should be divisible by 400. Hence 100,200,300 are not leap years. Using these conditions calculate the number of years from the given question.

2000 was NOT a leap year. An end of century year (one ending in 00) isn't a leap year if it's evenly divisible by 400.

1895 was not a leap year in the Gregorian calendar (used in most of the “western world”) nor in the Julian calendar (used e.g. in Russia at the time), because that year number is not divisible by four. 1896 was a leap year in both those calendars because that year number is divisible by four.