The properties of minerals that might help Jimmy and his partners to identify the sample other than Hardness (scratch test) are:
1. Color
2. Crystalline Structure
3. Cleavage or Fracture
4. Transparency
5. Tenacity
In the first case, the force acting on the spring is the weight of the mass:

This force causes a stretching of

on the spring, so we can use these data to find the spring constant:

In the second case, the first mass is replaced with a second mass, whose weight is

And since we know the spring constant, we can calculate the new elongation of the spring:
Answer:
(4xy+5ab)(4xy-5ab)
Explanation:
16
-25

4^2 is 16 and 5^2 is 25,
Also, (x-a)(x+a) = x^2-a^2
So, this factorized is:
(4xy+5ab)(4xy-5ab)
Hope this helps!