Materials: One 8-oz bag Cheetos Bag o’ Bones
Large bowl
Smaller containers for sorting the bones
Sorting revealed the following distribution:
Large bowl
Smaller containers for sorting the bones
Sorting revealed the following distribution:
Skulls: 54
Ribcages: 38
Considering the picture above, a cheetah skeleton is one head, one rib cage, four paws, and four long
bones--the limiting factor on skeletal assembly would be paws. This one bag of
Cheetos Bag O’ Bones could assemble 12 complete cheetahs.
Another picture on the bag, though, shows one head, one rib cage,
four paws, and eight long bones. In that case, the limiting factor would be
longbones, and the bag would only give us 10 complete cheetahs.
I could purchase more bags, but it turns out that the bones
are the puffy kind of cheeto, not the crunchy ones I prefer.
So I’ll stick with the observation that the total volume of
each kind of bone seemed to be approximately equal. It’s also possible that bags are filled by
mass of each bone, but my instrumentation was limited. (My kitchen scale has been dropped enough times that its accuracy is unreliable. It's sensitivity with such light objects has never been stellar, either.)
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