WILL MARK BRAINLIEST this is for my college readiness class but i didnt know what catagory to mark it as lol
im too burnt out to finish it and its my second to last assignment for the year

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.