In california, as commercial farms move from areas with high-quality soil to arid regions, they will most likely a. switch from crops to livestock. b. need to compete for scarce water. c. their dependency on chemicals. d. reduce the size and variety of their output. e. make their operations more sustainable.

B.need to compete for scarce water...
is the correct answer...

it is so that arid regions have scarcity of water...

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Horizontal asymptote at  tells us that the original graph has been translated down.since  ,  are positive.  also we can say that the point  has a smaller  -coordinate than  .this means that the  transformed exponential function is increasing as it goes to the right. as it goes from  to , the value of the exponential function increases. it goes from to something bigger, . therefore, as  . the left hand would be the side that approaches the horizontal asymptote.so the answer is d