Michaela is baking a dessert. She measures 100 mL of vegetable oil by pouring it from the bottle into a measuring cup. Then she pours the vegetable oil into a bowl with the other ingredients.

Question

Which best describes what happened to the vegetable oil during this process?

The volume of the vegetable oil changed, but the shape did not.
The shape of the vegetable oil changed but the volume did not.
Both the volume and the shape of the vegetable oil changed.
Both the volume and the shape of the vegetable oil remained the same.

Answer 1

The best description of what happened to the vegetable oil during this process is: The shape of the vegetable oil changed but the volume did not.

When Michaela poured the oil from the bottle into the measuring cup and then into the bowl, the oil took on the shape of each new container it occupied, but the total volume of the oil (100 mL) remained constant throughout the process.