Pacific+Group

Pacific Group Lab Report  (Jessica Miller, Grace Robison, and caroline Cremerius) Problem: Which brand (bounty or store brand) is the real quicker picker upper? Observation/research: Paper towels are used to clean up common house hold spills. Bounty is softer and can have a colored pattern. Store Brand is more rough and tends to tear more. Bounty is bought more than store brand because people think because it is more expensive it works better. Hypothesis:  Caroline and Grace believe that bounty is the quicker picker upper, but Jessica believes that the store brand will pull through and no longer be the underdog. __Test Hypothesis:__ Materials Control: Store Brand Independent: Bounty Instructions for test 1:  1) Put on a clothing protector.   2) Gather 1 roll each of Bounty and a Store Brand paper towels. 3) Also, use a spray bottle filled with water and 3 drops of blue dye  4) Spray bounty and Store Brand roll 8 times in the same spot   5) Unroll sheets   6) Count how many spots you see for both rolls   7) Compare   8) The roll with the least amount of spots is the most absorbent     Instructions for test 2:   1)   2) Second, pour one teaspon of syrup onto table for each paper towel   3) Third,wet the paper towelsœ   4) Time to see how long it takes for the paper towels to completely clean the syrup from the surface. The conclusion to our experiment was that the name brand, Bounty, works better than the store brand paper towels. We did a durability test and an obsorbencey test to find out which brand of paper towels worked best. We had one other group perform the experiment and they got close to the same results. The Bounty brand cleaned up the syrup, in the obsorbency test, in 2.5 seconds faster than the store brand. They Bounty brand also absorbed the water using only 13 towels, but the Store Brand used 41 on the first test, and 25 on the second test. We would not change the way we conducted the experiment; we believe we conducted the experiment very well.
 * Bounty Paper towels
 * Store Brand
 * A Spray bottle with water and 3 drops of blue dye
 * Teaspoon of syrup
 * Stopwatch
 * Apron