Tootsie Pop Research Paper

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Abstract Since the original television commercial aired in 1970 many people have wondered, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" There have been many experiments done by men, women, and children to find out the answer, but no definite conclusion. The research is has been done, and results have been put towards finding out the answers to this famous question. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? In 1970 when Mr. Owl first aired on TV giving his answer of 3 to the question of how many licks it takes him to get to the center of the a tootsie pop. (How many licks, 2006). Since then many men, women, and children have researched the answer to this question. There have been many different…show more content…
Each participant was given one Tootsie Pop and the procedure was explained. The students were told to lick the Tootsie Pop from side to side. No sucking on the Tootsie Pop. They are to keep repeating this step until the center is reached. The center is defined as the feeling the texture of the tootsie roll or if the tootsie roll is visible. The monitors will record the results. The Tootsie Pop link counter will ran the numbers to get the results. By throwing out any outliers, we have a number of 577 licks to get to the center. Since this is based on side to side licking we divided the number to come up with the number of a one sided lick resulting in 288.5 licks to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop. References Hiskey, D. (2010, December 13). How many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. Today I Found Out RSS. Retrieved from http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php /2010/12/how-many-licks-it-takes-to-get-to-the-center-of-a-tootsie-roll-tootsie-pop/ How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. (2006, October 04). Retrieved from http://blogcritics.org/tastes/article/q-how-many-licks-does-it/hanging indent. The quest for the answer. (n.d.). Welcome to Tootsie Roll Incorporated. Retrieved from http://www.tootsie.com/gal_licks.php * Tootsie roll pop lab. (n.d.). Why Do We Use the Scientific Method to Solve a Problem? Retrieved from http://home.comcast.net/~biobrew/pages/sections/labs/labsinpdf/

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