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.
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Question: Question: John was playing with alkanes in his lab. If he decreased the amount of carbon atoms in an alkane, what would happen to the boiling point of that alkane? 
 Answer: decrease?

Answer: Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.


Question: Question: When we pack a fewer things into a box it becomes 
 Answer: less dense

Answer: The more tightly packed the particles inside the material are, the more dense we say they are.


Question: Question: Eric removes resistors in parallel to a circuit. The total current 
 Answer: decreases

Answer:
When we add resistors in parallel to each other the total resistance decreases and the current increases.