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Question
Given reason:
Cutting of a cloth piece is a physical change, though it cannot be reversed.
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Solution
Because it does not change chemical composition of cloth and the change is only in the state, size, shape, colour, texture or the smell of some or all of the substances that undergo physical change.
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