NAME: Group:

Sample Problem Statement:

Ricardo and Dominic were arguing about which brand of soda was more acidic. Ricardo insisted
that the Schweppes brand was evidently harsher and so was more acidic, while Dominic
adamant that the Ting brand was the clear contender. Plan and design an investigation into
which brand of soda is more acidic.

Hypothesis

(Write your hypothesis here – Remember to pick a side and express it as though it were a
fact)

Aim

SAMPLE: “To determine the volume of NaOH solution required to neutralize 20cm 3 of lime juice
solution from two types of limes by method of titration”

(Write your aim here – you may start with “to determine” or “to investigate” and be sure to
include the method by which you are going to conduct the experiment)

Apparatus and Materials

(Write all the apparatus and materials to be used in the experiment as a list here)

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Diagram:

Copy and paste the most suitable apparatus from the companion sheet set based on your proposed method
in the BOX below:

TYPE TITLE HERE: DIAGRAM SHOWING…

Method:

This should be logically sequenced, valid for the hypothesis and aim, feasible and should be
written as instructions with as much details as necessary.

SAMPLE METHOD

1. Condition all apparatus

2. Obtain two 200 cm3 beakers label each A and B respectively
3. Pour 100 cm3 of green lime juice to the beaker labelled A.
4. Pipette 20 cm3 of green lime juice into a conical flask
5. Add 1 to 2 drops of bromothymol blue indicator to flask A
6. Fill the burette with the 0.1 moldm-3 NaOH solution.
7. Titrate the 0.1 moldm-3 NaOH against the 20 cm3 of lime juice in flask A
8. Do this until three concordant values are obtained
9. Repeat steps 3 to 8 for the green lime juice in flask B

Variables:

Manipulated Variable: (the variable that you deliberately change during the experiment)

Responding Variable: (the variable that changes in response to the manipulated variable)

Controlled Variable: (those variables that are kept constant throughout the experiment by the experimenter.
Write at least two, please)

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Expected Result [Data to be collected]

This is data to be collected! Do not write what you expect to happen! For the above example you
would draw up the titration tables, put in the headings for each column and units, title but leave
the table blank [no volumes measured]. Remember you have not done the experiment yet!

Treatment of Results

State how you will use the results [data collected] to support or reject your hypothesis. You
should not try to explain the chemical principles/theory behind the experiment!

Based on the results obtained, calculations will be done to determine…

Precautions

(type at least two actions that could be taken to prevent unwanted effects)

Limitations

(type one factor that is out of your control which may affect your results)

Sources of Error

(Cite anything that could happen during the experiment that may affect your
responding variable.)

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Chemistry Teacher
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