I have a question regarding physics. So I was given the assignment to determine the mass of a single smartie given a bunch of envelopes each carrying an unknown amount of smarties. I was given the mass of the intial envelope (3g) and determined the masses of the envelopes carrying the unknown amount of smarties. I got values such as: 8g, 7.4g, 9g, 10g and even as high as 30.5g. I was then told to graph the data and told to determine the mass of a single smartie. I am just wondering how I would graph this data because I am only given the mass of the envelope without anything in it, and the mass of the envelopes with an unknown amount of smarties. I wasn't allowed to open the envelope or feel around. Does anyone know how I could graph the data aswell as determine the mass of the smartie? I had the idea that I would end up finding the slope of the graph which would help me determine the mass of the smartie. I only have one axis of data to graph so I am not sure how it would look. I was also thinking about taking the average of all the envelopes and graphing that but any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Clear answers please, I know you smart cookies out there know how to do this :P
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m0 = 3g (empty envelope)
m1 = 3g + s (envelope and single smartie)
m2 = 3g + 2*s (envelope and two smarties)
m3 = 3g + 3*s (envelope and three smarties)
mk = 3g + k*s (envelope with k smarties)
what I would do is get bunch of weight samples, remove 3g from each result (empthy envelope) and find common factor since all results here are just multiple of smarties (integer x smartie weight)
m1 = 3g + s (envelope and single smartie)
m2 = 3g + 2*s (envelope and two smarties)
m3 = 3g + 3*s (envelope and three smarties)
mk = 3g + k*s (envelope with k smarties)
what I would do is get bunch of weight samples, remove 3g from each result (empthy envelope) and find common factor since all results here are just multiple of smarties (integer x smartie weight)