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1. Two students conducted an experiment to determine which diaper brand, Huggies or Kirkland, absorbs more liquid. Their hypothesis was that Huggies would absorb more. 2. The experiment involved placing each diaper type on newspaper and slowly pouring measured amounts of "urine" into the center until it was fully absorbed or began leaking. They recorded how much each diaper held. 3. The results showed Huggies absorbed 200mL while Kirkland only absorbed 150mL, supporting their hypothesis. However, the author notes the experiment should be repeated multiple times to get a more accurate average for each brand.

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1. Two students conducted an experiment to determine which diaper brand, Huggies or Kirkland, absorbs more liquid. Their hypothesis was that Huggies would absorb more. 2. The experiment involved placing each diaper type on newspaper and slowly pouring measured amounts of "urine" into the center until it was fully absorbed or began leaking. They recorded how much each diaper held. 3. The results showed Huggies absorbed 200mL while Kirkland only absorbed 150mL, supporting their hypothesis. However, the author notes the experiment should be repeated multiple times to get a more accurate average for each brand.

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Abstract:

Kihyeok and Maruf are experimenting about which diaper brand to buy: Kirkland or Huggies.
For this experiment, we are making a question: Which one will absorb more, Kirkland or
Huggies?. We used diapers from each brand.
Our independent variable was type of brand, and dependent variable was amount of urine
absorbed, and our constant was we used the same material for urine and the procedure of the
experiment for both was same. Our hypothesis is that the Huggies brand will absorb more than
Kirkland brand. The things that make diapers absorbent is the synthetic polymers. And
specifically, sodium polyacrylate (C3H3NaO2 )x
Procedure:
1. Take 1 Huggies diaper and lay the outside down so inside of diaper facing up
on newspaper.
2. Obtain 1 or 2 cup(s) of urine at least of cup.
3. Obtain graduated cylinder.
4. Fill graduated cylinder with 50mL of urine (use pipette to help in accuracy of
measurements)
5. Pour 20mL of urine slowly from graduated cylinder into the center of diaper.
6. Pick up diaper and rock diaper back and forth to get urine to spread evenly for
15 sec.
7. Flip diaper over and see if any urine comes out onto newspaper.
8. Keep a record of how much urine comes out onto newspaper.
9. Repeat steps 5-8 until 150mL have gone into diaper or urine leaks out of diaper
when flipped.
10. When 150mL is in diaper pour 10mL of urine in diaper at a time.
11. Pick diaper up and rock diaper back and forth for 20 sec.
12. Record the total amount of urine Huggies absorbed without leaking.
13. Repeat steps 4-10 with Kirkland diaper.

Data Chart:
Diaper Brand

Amount of Urine (mL)

Huggies

200

Kirkland

150

Graph:

Conclusion:
Our hypothesis is that the Huggies brand diapers will absorb more than Kirkland brand diapers.
Our hypothesis was correct. The experiment showed that Huggies brand diapers was able to
hold 200 mL of urine as opposed to Kirkland brand diapers which held 150 mL of urine. The
total difference was 50 mL of urine. This data supports using Huggies brand diapers over
Kirkland brand diapers.
I dont believe that this is a valid conclusion due to only doing one trial. No more than 1 trial was
done to average out amount of milliliters each brand can hold, but we did have multiple groups
conduct this experiment, and we could not control the amount of impurities in the urine, which
can change the final results. The class overall average came out to be 199 mL for Huggies and
162 mL for Kirkland. Our outcome had +1 mL difference of Huggies comparing to the average
and -12 mL difference of Kirkland comparing to the average. The amount of urine that was put in
was the same amount. If we were to do this experiment again we would do multiple more trials
to analyze and average the amount of urine absorbed by each brand,and we could also try to
monitor the way the experiment was conducted among the groups so it may be done as closely
similar as possible.

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