you don need to actually chew the bread. you can just break it up into smaller pieces. which variable will you change in your investigation?

The type of bread (independent variable)

Explanation:

You can just change the type of bread you are eating and just hold it in your mouth to test your hypothesis of not having to chew the bread. It’s the easier thing to change when making the experiment. Now your bread is your independent variable because you are not changing anything else but the type of bread. Not sure if your question is talking about the technical terms for the variable or what actual variable in the experiment, so I put down both.

answer: decrease

a limiting factor is the one which decrease the abundance, distribution and causes extinction of the population of species in a ecosystem. here, predators including hawks, owls and snakes are the limiting factor for the population of mexican free tailed bat.   although bats are nocturnal animals as they forge for food at night these predators also may remain active during night which can decrease the population of the mexican free-tailed bats. also, these bats eat only one type of insects that are moths. the food can also be a limiting factor as all 400 members are dependent upon same type of food needs that are moths. the decrease in the moth population can cause decrease in population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.

therefore, the scenarios will most likely to decrease the population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.  

the answer would be   10%