Question

Assertion (A): Wide wooden sleepers are kept below railway lines to reduce pressure on the railway tracks and prevent them from sinking into the ground.
Reason (R): Pressure is directly proportional to the area in which it is acting.

Options

• If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If the assertion is true but the reason is false.

• If the assertion is false but the reason is true.

Answer 1

If the assertion is true but the reason is false.