Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

The following questions are based on the information given below:

An advertising agency finds that, of its 170 clients, 115 read Indian Express, 110 read The Hindu and 130 read Times of India. Also 85 read Indian Express and Times of India, 75 read Indian Express and The Hindu, 95 read The Hindu and Times of India and 70 read all the three.

How many read only The Hindu?

The primitive atmosphere was reducing because:

Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and replace 'x' in series 1.5,1.55,1.65,1.8,x

A is brother of B, C is daughter of B, D is husband of B, E is daughter of A, What is the relationship between C and D ?

The price of commodity X increases by 60 rupees every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 20 rupees every year. If in 2002, the price of commodity X was Rs. 320 and that of Y was Rs. 740, in which year commodity X will cost 60 rupees more than the commodity Y ?

In the following question, various terms of an alphabet series are given with one or more terms missing as shown by (?). Choose the missing terms out of the given alternatives. AB, DEF, HIJK, ?, STUVWX

-20 , -16 , -12 , -8 .... 

In the sequence above, each term after the first is 4 greater than the preceding term. Which of the following could not be a term in the sequence? 

How is Giridhar's mother's husband's father-in-law's son's daughter related to Giridhar?