sly, maybe you can help me with this
I was tutoring and a kid asked me this problem:
"Suppose a cylinder full of sugar has a mass of 5.81. When it is 3/8 full, its mass is 3.8. What is the mass of the cylinder when it is empty?"
The thing that is confusing me is that it is mass. I know volume and mass aren't the same thing, so I am unsure of how to approach this problem. Supposed to be an Algebra 1 problem and I am drawing a blank.