Question

How many such vowels are there in the above arrangement, each immediately preceded by a consonant and immediately followed by a number?

• A. None
• B. One
• C. Two
• D. Three

Hint:

Scan triplets; vowels are A, E, I, O, U and consonants are other letters.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Only the block \(B\ \underline{E}\ 8\) fits "consonant-vowel-number". Hence \(\boxed{1}\).

Answer 2

Rather than spotting the qualifying block directly, let's scan every vowel in the arrangement and check its immediate neighbours one at a time, then see which option matches the tally.

1. Option None: This would require that no vowel anywhere has a consonant right before it and a digit right after it. Scanning the row, the vowel E does have exactly a consonant before it and a digit after it (the "consonant, E, 8" block), so at least one such case exists — this option is too low.
2. Option One: Going through every vowel in turn and checking its left neighbour (must be a consonant) and right neighbour (must be a digit), only a single vowel — E, sitting between a consonant and the digit \(8\) — satisfies both conditions simultaneously. No other vowel in the row has this exact consonant-vowel-digit pattern on both sides.
3. Option Two: This would require a second qualifying vowel elsewhere in the row; checking the remaining vowels shows none of them is sandwiched between a consonant and a digit in that same order, so the count cannot reach two.
4. Option Three: Even less likely than two matches — the row simply doesn't contain enough consonant-vowel-digit sequences to reach three.

The vowel-by-vowel scan turns up exactly one qualifying case.

Hence, the correct answer is One.