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DIRECTIONS: The questions in this segment consists of two statements, one labeled as "Assertion A" and the other labeled as "Reason R". You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion A and Reason R are individually true and if so, whether the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion. Select your answers to these items using codes given below. Assertion (A): Rain containing excess amount of acid is called acid rain. Reason (R): Air pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides dissolve in water to form carbonic acid, sulphuric acid and nitric acid.

A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

C) A is true but R is false.

D) A is false but R is true.