Given Word: MINUTE 

The given word can be represented as follows:

Thus, there are two such pairs.

Backward: UT and IE.

Hence answer is Two.

Let January be represented by Jan , February be Feb, March be Mar , April be Apr, May be May , June be Jun , July be Jul , August be Aug , September be Sept ,October Be Oct , November be Nov and December be Dec in the following table.

If each letter from F on wards, is represented by the months of the year starting from Jan.

Hence, position of June from right is 4th.

Given series of letter:

Left Side A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Right Side

By following the given logic in the series:

According to alphabetical position of letters:

1) BAB: B/2 = A; A + 1 = B;

2) FCD: F/2 = C; C + 1 = D;

3) JEF: J/2 = E; E + 1 = F;

4) DBD: D/2 = B; B + 1 = C ≠ D;

5) HDE: H/2 = D; D + 1 = E

Only DBD doesn’t follow this logic.

Forward Pair: 1 (AE)

Backward Pair: 2 (LN, EG)

Hence, there is three such pair.

Given: C O M P A N Y I S H I R I N G N E W E M P L O Y E S

8^th letter of the English alphabet is H; immediate left to H is S.

Given: C O M P A N Y I S H I R I N G N E W E M P L O Y E S

AMC: A - 2 → M, M – 2 → C

ISY: I - 2 → S, S - 2 → Y

EGI: E - 2 → G, G - 2 → I

OPE: O - 2 → P, P - 2 → E

CYH: C + 6 → Y, Y + 3 → H

Given: C O M P A N Y I S H I R I N G N E W E M P L O Y E S

Therefore, M is the middle alphabet in between C and A.

I is the tenth to the right of M.

Given Word: R E C T A N G L E

1^st letter = R; 4^th letter = T; 5^th letter = A

Letters given: R T A

Given word: TELEVISION

The given word can be represented as follows,

Given series:

3 1 4 7 3 9 8 5 5 2 6 3 1 1 8 6 3 8 9 2 2 4 1 4 6 7 8

Therefore, there are four even numbers which are immediately preceded by an odd number but immediately followed by an even number.

Given series:

3 1 4 7 3 9 8 5 5 2 6 3 1 1 8 6 3 8 9 2 2 4 1 46 7 8

Therefore, there are four odd numbers sequence which are immediately preceded and also immediately followed by an even number.

Given series:

3 1 4 7 3 9 8 5 5 2 6 3 1 1 8 6 3 8 9 2 2 4 1 4 6 7 8

The number ninth from right end is 9.

The number which is third to the right of 9 is 4.

Given word: ABSURDISM

Chosen letters:

Fourth letter → U

Fifth letter → R

Sixth letter → D

Last letter → M

Word formed with the above chosen letters is DRUM.

Second letter of the formed word DRUM is R.

The number of pairs of letters in the word “OBSEQUITOUS” which has as many letters between them in the word as in alphabetical series: BACKWARD → QS, IO, QT.