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#|POPCORN POPPED IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES Cade S 2012-2013

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this experiment was to see which type of #|popcorn kernel brand popped the most popcorn. This data would be needed to see which type of popcorn is the most reliable when it is being made for big events or groups. In the experiment, 100 popcorn kernels for every brand of popcorn were counted and placed in a brown #|paper bag. The paper bags were put #|in a microwave separately from the other brands, and were cooked for 90 sec. After the popcorn finished popping the popcorn kernels unpopped were counted and subtracted from 100 to find the total kernels popped. The Pop secret popcorn ended up popping the most but it Orville brand popcorn was only a few kernels below and it could have been possible for the two popcorn kernels to have the exact same amount of kernels popped because the brands are made of equal quality. They are both name brand popcorn unlike the yellow popcorn that popped the least.

EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS

An improvement that should be added to this experiment is that in the experiment of which water was placed in the microwave, their should have been a time when very little water was added. This experiment was done because when water is added to a microwave, usually the microwave runs better, but in this experiment, too much water was added. Another change that should be made to this is this project was that in the expierements where the brands were placed in the microwave for different amounts of time, the time stopped at 1:30, where some kernels were unpopped. It would be good to see the results for more times.

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