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Sea gulls prey on snails on the rocky sea coast. The snails vary in color from solid brown to brown and tan striped. The birds suck the soft snail bodies out of the shells and leave the shells behind on the rocks. Scientists picked up 500 empty shells and found that 400 of the shells were solid brown and only 100 were striped. Over the years, what would you expect to happen to the snail population? helpp please 10 points to anyone who helps

A) The snails would become extinct.
B) There would be mostly brown snails.
C) There would be mostly striped snails.
D) There would be an even number of brown snails and striped snails.

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---C---- if brown snails are mostly eaten that most likely means they are more common. If less than snails are eaten then stripedsnails would eventually over populate brown snails and then brown snails would overpopulate striped snails ..... so elminate b and d and snails probably won't go extinct..... so I would have to go with c
jasarochel

i think that the answer is C because in the paragraph it shows that the the sea gulls perfer the solid brown shells with snails, than the striped

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