Choose the correct alternative from the following.
Assertion (A) : Leakages in household gas cylinders can be detected.
Reason (R) : LPG has a strong smell.
Answer: C
Correct answer: A is true but R is false.
A leak can be smelt, so A is true. But LPG is odourless in itself: ethyl mercaptan is added in tiny quantities precisely so that leaks announce themselves. R is false as stated.
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Assertion (A) : Simla is colder than Delhi.
Reason (R) : Simla is at a high altitude compared to Delhi.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Simla stands at about 2200 m against Delhi’s 220 m, and air cools by roughly \( 6.5^{\circ}\mathrm{C} \) per kilometre of ascent. The altitude difference therefore accounts for the temperature difference directly. Both are true and R explains A.
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Assertion (A) : Land breeze blows during night.
Reason (R) : Land gets heated up quickly.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
Both statements are true, but the reason given is the wrong half of the cycle. Land heats quickly by day, which drives the sea breeze; at night it also cools quickly, so the air over it becomes denser and flows out to sea. It is the rapid cooling, not the rapid heating, that produces the land breeze. R does not explain A.
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Assertion (A) : The freezing of sea water during winter does not kill the fishes.
Reason (R) : Only surface water is frozen.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Ice forms only at the surface and, being less dense than water, floats there and insulates the water below, which stays liquid at about \( 4^{\circ}\mathrm{C} \). The fish therefore survive beneath it. Both are true and R explains A.
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Assertion (A) : We feel comfortable in hot and humid climate.
Reason (R) : Sweat evaporates faster in humid climate.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Both A and R are false.
Humid air is already close to saturation, so sweat evaporates more slowly, not faster - and since evaporation is what cools the body, hot humid weather feels oppressive. Both A and R are false.
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Assertion (A) : Mohammad-bin-Tughluq is called the 'wisest fool'.
Reason (R) : He had wise plans but implemented them foolishly.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Muhammad-bin-Tughluq’s schemes - the token currency, the transfer of the capital to Daulatabad, the Deccan campaigns - were imaginative in conception and disastrous in execution. That combination is exactly what earned him the name. Both are true and R explains A.
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Assertion (A) : Weeds should not be allowed to grow along with the crops.
Reason (R) : Weeds leave no space for plants to grow.
Answer: C
Correct answer: A is true but R is false.
Weeds must indeed be kept out of a crop, so A is true. But the reason given is not the real one: weeds do their damage by competing for water, nutrients and light, and by harbouring pests - not merely by occupying space. R is false.
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Assertion (A) : Carbon dioxide turns lime water milky.
Reason (R) : Carbon dioxide sullies the water.
Answer: C
Correct answer: A is true but R is false.
Carbon dioxide does turn lime water milky, so A is true. But the milkiness is a precipitate of insoluble calcium carbonate: \[ \mathrm{Ca(OH)_2 + CO_2 \rightarrow CaCO_3 \downarrow + H_2O} \] not any “sullying” of the water. R is false.
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Assertion (A) : Diamond is used for cutting glass.
Reason (R) : Diamond has a high refractive index.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
Diamond does cut glass and it does have a high refractive index, so both statements are true - but they are unrelated. Diamond cuts glass because it is the hardest natural substance; the refractive index is why it sparkles. R does not explain A.
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Assertion (A) : Telephone wires sag more in summer.
Reason (R) : They expand due to summer heat.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Metals expand when heated, so in summer the wire between two poles becomes slightly longer while the poles stay where they are - and the extra length can only go into a deeper sag. The expansion is exactly the cause. Both are true and R explains A.
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