Context:
Ten curly pastas were dropped simutaneously into the center of a circular area with a radius of 3.5 inches. The circular area had no borders, so the pastas may bounce outside of it. The controlled variable "drop_height" is the height (in inches) in which the pastas were dropped, and the observed variable "observed" is the number of pastas that eventually landed outside the circular area.

What was measured was basically the percentage of pastas that bounced more than 3.5 inches away from the center. How the pastas were dropped is that they were held by two clasping hands than released. Every trial of this observation started with a clean slate and ten pastas to be dropped. These data can be used to answer the question of how far objects tend to bounce away from their point of impact based on the height they were dropped.