The Pringle Challenge
For our class, this challenge was about creating a form of transportation to ship a pringle chip from here in San Diego, to our teacher's parents house in northern California, and back here in perfect condition and in the smallest package as possible. We did this in groups of three or four. In my group, we used a shoebox that contained a box of cotton balls, and in that bag, there was a mold that fit the chip which was created with the same substance that is used by dentists to mold teeth. We used these items because the cotton balls provided protection while the mold kept the chip sturdy and also created a partial shield. Our chip came back in perfect condition but we were deducted points because of the size of our shoebox.
The way we calculated the score was by multiplying the kilogram weight of our package by the volume, dividing it by our intactness score (which is how intact our pringle was) and multiplying that by one hundred. An example of this is that I took my mass in kilograms, .168 kg, and multiplied that by my volume of 9792 cm cubed which gave me an answer of 1645.056. I then took my intactness score of 10 and divided that by 1645.056 which gives me .00607. My last step to find my score was to multiply that answer by one hundred for a final answer of .607. In the future, I would have used a smaller package because I believe our pringle would have stayed intact even though it would be in a smaller package.
The way we calculated the score was by multiplying the kilogram weight of our package by the volume, dividing it by our intactness score (which is how intact our pringle was) and multiplying that by one hundred. An example of this is that I took my mass in kilograms, .168 kg, and multiplied that by my volume of 9792 cm cubed which gave me an answer of 1645.056. I then took my intactness score of 10 and divided that by 1645.056 which gives me .00607. My last step to find my score was to multiply that answer by one hundred for a final answer of .607. In the future, I would have used a smaller package because I believe our pringle would have stayed intact even though it would be in a smaller package.