Question

(A): Personal hygiene is an act of maintaining cleanliness and grooming of external body.
(R): It is important to enhance your overall appearance.

• A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
• B. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of (A).
• C. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
• D. (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Hint:

Washing hands with soap and clean water is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious foodborne diseases like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Evaluating the Assertion (A):
Personal hygiene involves practices like washing hands, bathing, brushing teeth, and grooming to maintain the cleanliness of the external body. Thus, the assertion is True.

Step 2: Evaluating the Reason (R):
Maintaining personal hygiene does help enhance an individual's overall appearance and social presentation, making the reason True.

Step 3: Determining the Logical Link:
While both statements are true, the reason (R) only describes a secondary, aesthetic benefit of hygiene. The primary, scientific purpose of personal hygiene is to prevent the growth and transmission of pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, (R) is not the correct scientific explanation for the primary importance of (A).