Last year, an earthworm from Wigan named Dave wriggled into the record books as the largest found in the UK. Dave was 40 cm long and had a mass of 26 g. What was Dave's mass per unit length?
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0.6 \text{ g/cm}
0.65 \text{ g/cm}
0.75 \text{ g/cm}
1.6 \text{ g/cm}
1.75 \text{ g/cm}
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