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Gum Lab Hypothesis

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introduction
So you’re in the school yard and you and your peers are having a bubble blowing contest you, of course want to win with all that street cred on the line. This is a likely scenario for many students across the world because gum is relatively cheap and incredibly plentiful. Marketed Bubble gum originated in 1928

Hypothesis
My hypothesis based on past experience with the gum is that Wrigley gum will produce the biggest bubble.

Materials list: the various brands of gum (orbit, Wrigley, hubba bubba, bubble yum, and double bubble)
3 mechanical pencils phone (for timer) ruler table
9 sheets of paper
3 people

Methods
How would one go about blowing an impressive bubble with the least amount of work? Thus is the problem a team of high school students planned to tackle, to do this we developed an experiment to determine which of five types or brands of gum was the easiest to blow an impressive bubble. To do this we selected a talented chewer and bubble gum blower from within our group, and he chewed each piece of gum for three minutes and blew each gum three time before spitting them out. We recorded each bubble gum diameter and averaged them. The results are clearly outlined in the chart below. …show more content…

Since there are 5 brands of gum each gum brand received a number between 1-5. The lower the number the better the brand of gum. The following graphs illustrate each trait

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