One of the major goals of using preservation methods such as smoking, salting, and drying is decreasing the in a food. this decreases the potential for bacterial growth.

i believe it would cause an increase of percipitation, though i could be wrong. so i would say b is the answer.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.