If you cut a metal cube into four pieces, do the new pieces have a different mass than the original cube? Do the new pieces have a different density than the original cube?

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Declan Benson

Physics

31 October, 03:58

If you cut a metal cube into four pieces, do the new pieces have a different mass than the original cube? Do the new pieces have a different density than the original cube?

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Salvador Downs · Answer 1

Each piece will have 1/4 of the mass of the original big cube, but its density will be the same.

Density is a property of a substance, no matter how much or how little of it you have.

A speck of it on the tip of your pinky and a supertankerful of the same substance have the same density.