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DIRECTIONS: The questions in this segment consists of two statements, one labelled as ?Assertion A? and the other labelled 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: 5 is added to both sides of the equation \[x+a=b\] but the value of the equation doesn't change. Reason R: If we perform the same mathematical operation on both sides of the equation its value doesn't change.

A) If both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

B) If both Assertion and Reason are correct, but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.

C) If Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.

D) If Assertion is incorrect but Reason is correct.