Jeremy had a set of 500 toy blocks that could be connected by snapping them together. At first, he used all the blocks to build a small house. Later, he rearranged all the blocks to build a small car. How did the mass of the house compare to the car?

Question

Jeremy had a set of 500 toy blocks that could be connected by snapping them together. At first, he used all the blocks to build a small house. Later, he rearranged all the blocks to build a small car. How did the mass of the house compare to the car?
 A. 
The masses were the same.
 B. 
There is no way to tell from the information given.
 C. 
The house had a greater mass than the car.
 D. 
The car had a greater mass than the house.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

A. The masses were the same.

Since Jeremy used the same set of 500 toy blocks to create both the house and the car, the mass of the blocks used in each structure would remain constant. Therefore, the total mass of the house and the car would be the same.