Read the following statements : Assertion (A) and Reason ...

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Read the following statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : General forces such as social, political, legal and technological conditions affect an individual firm only indirectly.
Reason (R) : General forces have an impact on all business enterprises, in contrast to, specific forces that affect individual firms directly and immediately in their day-to-day working.
Choose the correct alternative from the following :

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are correct and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are correct, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are incorrect.
Assertion (A) is correct, but Reason (R) is incorrect.

Solution:

Assertion (A) is correct because general forces set the overall climate but don’t usually hit a single shop’s daily operations without affecting others.
Reason (R) provides the definition of why (A) is true: it contrasts general forces (impacting everyone) with specific forces (impacting one firm directly).
Therefore, (R) explains (A).

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