In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

[Q]: Question: If Milo is a farmer and he wants to increase the amount of bell peppers he grows, what should he do to advance his farming practices? 
 Answer: increase them
[A]: More advanced farming practices allowed a single farmer to grow food for many more people.


[Q]: Question: Polly was adding resistors to a circuit. Increasing the resistance in this series circuit will cause the total current to 
 Answer: increase
[A]: If we increase the resistance in a series circuit, by adding more resistors, then the total current decreases.


[Q]: Question: If Mona is playing with a rubber band and she decides to stretch it out very little, what happens to the elastic potential energy of the rubber band? 
 Answer: decreases
[A]:
The farther the object is stretched or compressed, the greater its elastic potential energy is.