Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.

2. It’s the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.

3. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you’re being shown.

4. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.

5. It is as though the cartoonist devised a series of panels to tell the story and has chosen to show you only one – and typically not even the funniest.

Let us analyze the sentences to find the coherent paragraph and identify the odd sentence out:

Sentence 1 introduces the main topic: the role of "inference" in single-panel comics. This serves as a great opening sentence.

Sentence 5 builds on this by explaining the premise: it is as though a series of panels exists, but the cartoonist only shows us one. This explains why inference is needed.

Sentence 3 explains how this works to create humor: the viewer must imagine the instant immediately before or after the shown panel.

Sentence 4 concludes the thought: to get the joke, the reader must figure out (infer) what those missing panels are.

Together, sentences 1-5-3-4 form a coherent paragraph about the reader's role in inferring missing information to understand the humor in a single-panel comic.

Sentence 2, on the other hand, mentions "the creator's participation and imagination". However, the rest of the passage is focused on the reader's participation (making inferences to understand the joke). Thus, sentence 2 is the odd one out.