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Assertion: A catalyst increases the rate of the reaction.
Reason: Catalysts lowers the activation energy of the reactants.

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Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
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Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
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Assertion is true but Reason is false
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Assertion is false but Reason is true
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Both Assertion and Reason are false
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The correct option is A Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
A catalyst increases the rate of the reaction by Lowering activation energy of reactants.
The catalyst provides an alternate reaction pathway having lower activation energy.
Thus, it can alter the mechanism of reaction.

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