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Courtney Alleyne March 2nd, 2010 Section: Yellow


 * I.** **Introduction**

A few weeks ago Mr. Keilty and Mrs. Walthall started talking about waste in class. We learned about Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). MSW is bussiness and household produced trash. My group, Darden Megan and I, then wondered which class in the middle school consumed the most paper. Paper, even though being a renewable resource, is consumed at too high of a rate at the middle school. If we consume less, or even recylcle the papers we do use, this can save energy, as well as trees. My group then decided to test which subject consumed the most paper over the course of 7 days. If the subject changes from English to Spanish to Science to History to Math, the amount of paper consumption will increase.


 * II. Materials**
 * **chart**
 * everyday school materials


 * III. Procedure** **Safety Concerns**
 * Paper Cuts- 12. Be alert


 * IV. Data**


 * || Science || History || Spanish || Math || English ||
 * Wednesday2/17 Day 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 2 ||
 * Thursday 2/18 Day 2 || 1 || 9 || 0 || 2 || 4 ||
 * Friday 2/19 Day 3 || 4 || 9 || 3 || 2 || 0 ||
 * Monday 2/22 Day 4 || 4 || 2 || 3 || 5 || 0 ||
 * Tuesday 2/23 Day 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Wednesday 2/24 Day 6 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 7 || 5 ||
 * Thursday 25th Day 7 || 1 || 3 || 3 || 7 || 5 ||
 * Courtney || 1.857143 || 4 || 1.857143 || 3.714286 || 2.285714 ||
 * Megan || 2.285714 || 4 || 3.285714 || 2.428571 || 3.285714 ||
 * Darden || 1.428571 || 3.571429 || 3.857143 || 0.714286 || 3 ||


 * V. Analysis**



This graph compares Megan Darden and I's data:




 * VI. Conclusion**

My hypothesis was incorrect. I originally thought that is the subject changed from English to Spanish to science to history to math, the amount of paper consumption would increase. I was wrong because when the subjects changed from science to spanish to English to math to history, the amount of paper consumption increased.This surprised me because I thought that math would consume more paper than history. A major human error that could occur while doing this experiment is forgetting to tally in a class. If made, I had to go back and count, and sometimes forgot to count a piece of paper. One challenge in our experiment was deciding what to count as a piece of paper and what to not count as a piece. The solution was to decide as a group what to count as a piece. We decided to count everything as a sheet, but not count a sheet for multiple use in that day.

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