Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (a) and the other labelled as Reason (r). Read the statements and choose the correct answer from the code given below: Assertion (a): A department contains 13 professors. Then two of the professors were born in the same month. Reason (r): The Pigeonhole Principle states that if there are more 'pigeons' than 'pigeonholes', there must be at least one pigeonhole with more than one pigeon.

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