Consumers Science

 

Science:  I love science!  It really is so much fun, and during one of my projects we got to pick what we experiment.  This project is called Consumers Science.  During this project I decided to test the absorbency of paper towels.  My three products were Bounty, Brawny, and Kirkland.

If you watch a lot of T.V you will see many Bounty commercials.  In those commercials Bounty claims that they have the best paper towels and they absorb the most liquid.  Guess what Bounty does absorb the most liquid!  Bounty absorbed 64mL of water (on average).  Brawny absorbed 59mL (on average) and Kirkland towel absorbed 50mL of water.  The cheapest brand to buy would be Kirkland with one roll of paper towels for $1.50.  Each roll has 80 paper towels.  Although Bounty soaks up the most water it costs $3.59 for a roll that has 121 paper towels.  Brawny costs $3.19 for a roll that has 102 paper towels.  I would recommend you buy Kirkland brand because they only cost $1.50 for a roll of 80 paper towels, but one paper towel from Bounty is a little bit less than half of a paper towel from Kirkland.  This also applies to Brawny too.  Even though Kirkland didn’t turn out to soak up a lot of water in my experiment, and since you have so many towels, you can always use more than one paper towel.  Therefore I recommend buying Kirkland Towels.

Here is the graph of my results:

Paper towel brand	Trial 1 (mL)	Trial 2 (mL)	Trial 3 (mL)	Trial 4 (mL	Trial 5 (mL)	Average (mL)
Bounty	60 mL	70 mL	60 mL	65 mL	65 mL	64 mL
Kirkland	50 mL	50 mL	50 mL	50 mL	50 mL	50 mL
Brawny	60 mL	60 mL	60 mL	60 mL	55 mL	59 mL

Here are some pictures of me doing some tests: