Edmilene Joy P.

Cac 6E

Experiment # 1: Density of Beverages 05/09/2018

I. Objective
1. To familiarize the students to the use and limitations of some lab equipment such as:
burette, graduated cylinder, and pipette.
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II. Introduction
Precision and accuracy are the ones that define the quality of data (1). Precision refers to
the closeness of the measured values to each other; and, it can be measured by calculating
the standard deviation for a set of data. Accuracy, on the other hand, is the closeness of a
measured value to the actual value and can be computed in terms of its percent error (2, 3).
(INSERT FORMULA FOR SD AND PERCENT ERROR)
In measuring the density of a liquid or solution, it is not necessary to measure the mass
and volume of the entire sample because density is considered as intensive property. This
means that it is independent to the amount of sample measured and it will always be the
same regardless of how much sample it measured (4). Based from the formula of density,
density = mass / volume, the density is directly proportional to the mass. This indicates that
if there is an increase in mass, the density of the solution will also increase. With that being
said, we can formulate a linear regression between these variables. Linear regression is
defined as the attempt to model the relationship between two variables (5). So, in this
experiment, we can construct a linear regression between the density of the solution and the
percent by mass of the dissolved solute.