A woman living in a third-story apartment is moving out. Rather than carrying everything down the stairs, she decides to pack her belongings into crates, attach a frictionless pulley to her balcony railing, and lower the crates by rope.

Afarmer began a new method of reducing grain spills. this reduced the number of mice on the farm. the number of snakes in the surrounding area decreased at the same time. the snakes depended on the mice that lived in the field. what’s the likely reason the snake population decreased? a. the number of snake predators increased. b. the number of mice increased. c. the number of mice decreased. d. the pesticides affected the snakes. e. a new breed of mice moved into the field.