A spring is cut into two equal halves. How is the spring constant of each half affected?
Spring constant of each half becomes twice the spring constant of the original spring.
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Then the resulting spring constant of each of the new halves is 2K, that is twice the original one. If a spring of spring constant K is cut into n equal parts then new spring constant of each spring is nK.