Questions

A pencil is an implement for writing or drawing. It is a thin core of graphite well mixed with clay, inside a wooden body as protective casing that prevents the core from being broken.

Here there are combination of two series.

 1) 9, 18, 36, 72, 144

 2) 8, 6, 4, 2, 0

Therefore, The next number in the given series is 0.

In the given sentence,

Despite is the preposition. It does not take 'of' after it. Therefore, the grammar mistake in the given sentence is 'of'.

Hence, the correct sentence is  "She went to gym despite her illness."

Duncan Passage is a strait in the Indian Ocean. It is about 48 km wide.

It separates Rutland Island to the north, and Little Andaman to the south.

West of Duncan Passage is the Bay of Bengal, east is the Andaman Sea.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun which looks green color. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.

Colors of other planets::

Mercury - Gray or slightly brownish

Venus - Pale yellow

Earth - Blue with white clouds

Mars - Mostly reddish brown

Jupiter - Orange and white bands

Saturn - Pale gold

Uranus - Green

Neptune - Pale blue

Pluto - Light brown