Exploring Measurements in the Food Industry

                           Do You Get What You Pay For?

Do you get what you pay for in your Cheetos bag? This experiment was so we could better understand accuracy and precision.

In this experiment we started by learning how to get accuracy and precision. To get accuracy we needed to get are net weight or (chips weight) close to 28.2-28.4g because the standard Cheetos bag has a weight of 28.3g or that's what the Cheetos company says. To get are precision weight we had to subtract greatest mass to least amount of mass. To be prtecise it had to had a range of < 20g. The materials we used in this experiment were 4 bags of Cheetos, electronic balance, and paper towels. To do this experiment we first had to get the net weight we did that by weighting are Cheetos bag when it was full then we weight it again when we emptied it out. then we subtracted the weight when it was full to the weight when it was empty and that gave us the net weight or the chips weight.


DATA
# Mass of
unopened bag		 The weight
of empty bag		 Diffrence
(Net Weight)\
CHIPS
           1 30.85g 1.56g 29.29g
           2 30.47g 1.56g 29.11g
           3 29.88g 1.51g 28.37g
          4 30.67g 1.53g 29.14g

We did not get what we paid for we either got more or less?
Are Bags were not accurate at all because they were more or less than 28.2-28.4g.
They where not precise because  are range was .92g and to be precise it had to be less or equal to .20g.

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