Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Bronchial breathing classically heard in case of Pneumonia.
Reason (R): When the underlying area is airless, as in consolidation, the sounds generated in the large airways are transmitted more efficiently, so they are louder and there is less filtering of the high frequencies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: