Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: The oil reserves listed in Table 14.3 in the text are very reliable BECAUSE the United Nations annually audits every petroleum producing country to determine the size of their reserves.
A) The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid.
B) The assertion and the reason are both correct, but the reason is invalid.
C) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
D) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.
E) Both the assertion and the reason are incorrect.

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The assertion is incorrect because oil reserve estimates can vary and are not always reliable. The reason is incorrect because the United Nations does not audit petroleum reserves annually.

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