Kayla Miguel

09.03.2016
Pd. 4 H. Chemistry
BeverageDensityLab
Purpose: How does the sugar percentage and beverage density relate to one another?
Hypothesis: If the drink has a high sugar percentage then the density will be high as well because sugar will
take up weight in the drink.
Procedure:
1) Gather all your materials.
a) 8 Clear Plastic Cups filled with Room Temperature Beverages (in clear cups labeled with the sugar
percentage)
i)10mL Water
ii)10mL Sugar water with 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% sugar with dye to tell the difference
iii)10mL Cola
iv)10mL Grape Juice
v)10mL Sports Drink (make sure to flatten the soda so the bubbles dont take away or add to the
density of the liquids by doing step 2)
b) Volumetric Pipette with bulb that can hold 10 mL or more
c) Balance, centigram (0.01-g. precision)
d) 100 mL Beaker
2) Flatten any carbonated drinks by pouring the liquid from one cup to another.
3) Place your beaker on your balance.
4) Take away the weight of the beaker by pressing the on/off button again.
5) Measure 20 mL using your pipette and extract the liquid from the clear cup to the beaker on the balance
beam.
6) Record the density (g/mL) on your data table.
7) Empty the beaker back into the cup and rinse your beaker and pipette.
8) Repeat steps 4-7 with the other liquids. Making sure to fill out the sugar percentage side with every
different beverage you measure.
Sugar Percentage to Density Relationship Data Table
Sugar Percentage (%) or Beverage Name Density (g/mL)

0% 0.981 g/mL

5% 0.984 g/mL

10% 1.013 g/mL

15% 1.040 g/mL

20% 1.048 g/mL

Sports Drink 0.98 g/mL

Grape Juice 1.051 g/mL

Soda 1.010 g/mL

Caption: This table shows the sugar percentage of a beverage on the left and the density of it in g/mL form on
the right. The 0% beverage is water and the 5-20% beverages were those with water, sugar and dye. The sugar
is to increase the sugar percentage and the dye is to help tell the difference between each liquid so they dont get
mixed up. After the data was collected we decided that maybe sugar percentage and density arent related.

Graph:

Caption: This graph is the data from the Sugar Percentage vs. Density lab. The density labeled with the g/mL
unit is plotted according to the sugar percentage in a light red dots on the graph and the best fit line is the
maroon line on the graph. The graph is used to show how the sugar percentage and density data range
differently. The maroon line is labeled by its slope equation and the calculated percent error.

Conclusion:
After my group and I finished experimenting the relationship between a beverages density and its sugar
percentage, weve decided that we would reject our hypothesis. This is because of the data we got when we
tested out grape juice. The drink had approximately 10% of sugar yet it was the beverage was the most dense.
This didnt relate since it wasnt the drink that had the most sugar in it, there was a 15% and a 20% of sugar
beverage that was less dense than the grape juice. Overall, the data we collected helped to organize how the
amount of sugar in a beverage correlates to how dense it is and creating a table was an organized way to
compare the density and sugar percentage of each beverage. For example, the liquid with 10% of sugar, water
and food dye was 1.013 g/mL in density, but the grape juice, that was also 10% of sugar was more dense at
1.013 g/mL. This wouldnt have been done without the table we conducted and the data we collected.
The importance of slope/no slope or our graph helped us relate to MATH because it showed the rise of how tall
the graph could go and the run of how long it could go. So that way when you plug the slope into the slope
equation and your y-intercept you would be able to figure out the direction of the graph both left and right and
up and down. But the results on our graph came to be because of the way the plots are scattered. So if our data
all came out to be around the same density then our slope would be completely different since there probably
wouldnt be a y-intercept, this would cause the entire equation to change. So the way the graph was set up and
scattered with increasing densities and increasing sugar percentages our slope turned out to be what it is.
An error my group and I made was measuring the beverage amount with the beaker instead of the pipette, this
gave more room for an error in measuring. We solved this error by quickly redoing the experiment using the
correct measuring tool. Not cleaning our tools well enough may have also caused an error. Not drying off
beakers completely before finding the density of things and leaving excess liquids in the pipette may have
because of the added density meaning my group and I may have had a major error in our experiment.
Nevertheless, I believe my group and I did a good job following the directions leaving small amounts of error
every time.

The correct number of Sig-Figs: the 15% with 4 sig-figs

0% sugar with 3 sig-figs the 20% with 4 sig-figs, the Grape juice (10%) with 4 sig-figs

the 5% with 3 sig-figs the Gatorade (6%) with 2 sig-figs

the 10% with 4 sig-figs and Cola (15%) with 4 sig-figs

Analysis:
Grape Juice:
Measured density= 1.051 g/mL
Nutritional Label= 24g sugar per 240mL
(24g/240 mL)x(1mL/1.051g)= Percent sugar= 9.5
Exceptional= 19.5-Sugar per g of beverage=9.5/ Percent Sugar=9.5 x 100= 100 Percent Error
Gatorade:
Measured density= 0.98 g/mL
Nutritional label= 21g sugar per 355mL
(21g/355mL)x(1mL/0.98g)= Percent Sugar= 6.0
Exceptional=4-Percent Sugar=6/Percent Sugar=6 x 100= 33.3 Percent Error
Cola:
Measured density= 1.010g/mL
Nutritional label= 39g sugar per 360mL
(39g/360mL)x(1mL/1.010g)= Percent Sugar= 10.9
Exceptional= 10- Percent Sugar= 10.9/ Percent Sugar= 10.9 x 100= 8.5 Percent Error