Assertion: Heat and work are modes of energy transfer to a system resulting in change in its internal energy.
Reason: Heat and work in thermodynamics are state variables.
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C
Assertion is correct as 
Now, heat is a path function. So, it is not a state
variable. Therefore, reason is correct.
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