DIRECTIONS: The questions in this segment consist 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): Temperature is a measure of degree of hotness of our body. Reason (R): We use a clinical thermometer to measure the degree of hotness of our body.

• 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.