Assertion: Acetic acid does not act as an acid in benzene.
Reason: Benzene does not accept a proton.

Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

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Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

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The assertion is true but the reason is false.

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Both assertion and reason are false.

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Solution

The correct option is A
Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

A substance acts as an acid, i.e., gives a proton only when another substance present acts as a base, i.e., accepts a proton. $C H_{3} C O O H$ cannot act as an acid in benzene because benzene cannot accept a proton, i.e., cannot act as a base.

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below :

(a) If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

(d) If the assertion and reason both are false.

(e) If assertion is false but reason is true.

Assertion: Acetic acid does not undergo haloform reaction.

Reason: Acetic acid has no alpha hydrogens.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

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