AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Option A — Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Agricultural regions were worst affected because the fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than the fall in industrial goods prices, directly explaining why agricultural communities suffered more.
Source: The Great Depression, Chapter 3, Section 3.4
The textbook explicitly states: "agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected. This was because the fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods." This means (R) is not just true — it is the direct causal reason given in the textbook for (A). So Option A is correct. Students often confuse B with A here; choose A only when R directly and completely explains A, which it does in this case.