Educational Negligence - Are You Getting What You Are Paying For?

Are you getting what you are paying for?

By Analiese Moses

Introduction:

Are you getting what you are paying for the time has come for the reliance to compare and contrast three different brands of milk chocolate, Cadbury, Choceur and Lindt. I have been employed to investigate some major corporations and their packaging of various snack foods. In particular, the recent rise in the production of ‘combination’ packs to see if they are providing the weight of the product as advertised and the value for money that they may be worth. However, in the journey of my investigation there was a large difficulty due to one of the bars been at least 160g less than the other two bars I was investigating, therefore the differences have had a major impact on the data produced.

Cadbury is a well-known brand for producing delicious and finger licking chocolate. The company has produced a wide range variety of flavors which has been sold and exported around the world. This brand of chocolate is a New-Zealand owned produce. Choceur is a locally produced brand of Aldi which is advertised to be milky, thick and dreamy eating. Lindt is a famous and well-known brand for producing delicate and divine chocolate.  I have chosen to investigate these brands as they all have something in common, they are all of appealing and mouth-watering appetite.

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Method

The investigation undertook many steps of this experiment, first we had to examine how and what we will do to determine which will be the better brand also if what you are paying for and what they are advertising is being produced. Then we had to choose a snack food product to, we chose to investigate the following brands Cadbury where we brought six 200g blocks, Choceur six 200g blocks and six 40g bars. When the bars were brought in we weight them on a 200g scale where we gathered the data. First we weighted the chocolate without the wrapping then we weight it with the wrapping however with the scales only being able to weigh anything of a weight up to 200g or less we had to break the bars in half and weight them separately then add the weights together, by doing this there could be a slight insufficient data concern.

Steps:

1. Turn scales on.
2. Remove chocolate form wrapping.
3. Break chocolate in half, then weight separately.
4. Add both halves of the chocolates weigh together, then record all observations
5. Repeat all steps from 2-4 for the following six bars of chocolate.

Findings:

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Because one brand of chocolate blocks (Lindt) weighed a significantly low amount in comparison to the other two block of chocolate (Cadbury, Choceur) there had to be a separate box and whisker plot in order to make assumption and analyse the graph.

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Analysis:

….. As shown in the graphs above there is a clear difference between all three brands of chocolate. It shows that the heaviest Cadbury block of chocolate is 8.1 heavier than the heaviest block of Choceur this shows that Cadbury provides you with more then what you are paying for in comparison to Choceur however in saying this, both companies provide the advertised amount and in some blocks weight even more. Both Cadbury and Choceur provide the advertised amount which is 200g, In the findings it shows that the lightest chocolate block weighed at least 201.9 or more. However, when trying to compare with Lindt chocolate there was a large difficulty due to the range of weight difference therefore it was hard to make an assumption for the weight and compare them with the other two brands of chocolate.