The priest told the devotee,"The temple bell is rung at regular intervals of $45 \, \text{minutes}$. The last bell was rung five minutes ago. The next bell is due to be rung at $7:45 \, \text{a.m.}$" At what time did the priest give this information to the devotee?

Raman ranks sixteenth from the top and forty-ninth from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?

How many $7$s are there in the following series which are immediately preceded by $6$ but not immediately followed by $4$?
$7, 4, 2, 7, 8, 4, 3, 6, 7, 5, 3, 5, 7, 8, 4, 3, 7, 6, 7, 2, 4, 0, 6, 7, 4, 3$

An application was received by an inward clerk in the afternoon of a weekday. The next day,he forwarded it to the table of the senior clerk,who was on leave that day. The senior clerk,on the next day evening,put up the application to the desk officer. The desk officer studied the application and disposed of the matter on the same day,i.e.,Friday. On which day was the application received by the inward clerk?

In a row of children facing North,Ritesh is $12^{th}$ from the left end. Sudhir,who is $22^{nd}$ from the right end,is $4^{th}$ to the right of Ritesh. How many children are there in the row in total?

Five men $A, B, C, D$ and $E$ read a newspaper. The one who reads first gives it to $C$. The one who reads last had taken it from $A$. $E$ was not the first or the last to read. There were two readers between $B$ and $A$. To whom did $B$ pass the newspaper?