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Question: John was looking in the microscope at some very small objects. What he observed was that the larger number of carbon atoms he saw, the number of isomers would quickly 
 Answer: decrease
Output:
As you increase the number of carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon, the number of isomers quickly increases.