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Paper Airplane Rough Analysis

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Paper Airplane Lab – After running the experiment …

ROUGH DRAFT information

Purpose: The goal of this handout is to help you organize your data and analyze your results.

**You must submit this page as part of the rough draft information you turn in

with the final copy of your paper airplane lab write-up.**

1. Find the average distance traveled by each of your airplanes. (Add a row to the end of

your data table and label it averages.)

Complete this general summary:

Plane Modification =

Average Distance

(Feet)

a. Did you have any unusual data points included? (For example, is there a REALLY

large or small number averaged in one of the trials? If so, any clue about why it

might be there? If so, what modification average is being influenced by that unusual

data?)

b. Are the average distances pretty similar or pretty different?

c. If they are pretty different, what modification led to the shortest distance?

d. If they are pretty different, what modification led to the longest distance?

e. If they are pretty similar, what does this tell you about how this modification affects

distance travelled?

Paper Airplane Rough Analysis