Yes, our friend is right, because there is no contradiction to the law of conservation of mass in the above equation. It just the mass of the product is equal to the mass of reactants.. and that is shown in the equation you have presented earlier
1. Amperes, is the SI unit (also a fundamental unit) responsible for current.
2.
Δq over Δt technically
Rearrange for Δq
I x Δt = Δq
1.5mA x 5 = Δq
Δq = 0.0075
Divide this by the fundamental charge "e"
Electrons: 0.0075 / 1.60 x 10^-19
Electrons: 4.6875 x 10^16 or 4.7 x 10^16
3. So we know that the end resistances will be equal so:
ρ = RA/L
ρL = RA
ρL/A = R
Now we can set up two equations one for the resistance of the aluminum bar and one for the copper: Where 1 represents aluminum and 2 represents copper

We are looking for L2 so we can isolate using algebra to get:

If you fill in those values you get 0.0205
or 2.05 cm