Since 16C and 37C both produced 259 colonies for each of their trials, this led us to wonder if experimental errors had ultimately skewed our data. An official trend could not be found from our results. 

There must be errors in our data because the number of trials conducted for each temperature were not exactly the same, it was extremely hard to count the colonies and use this as numerical data, and other bacteria was already growing on two of the petri dishes (however, these were the only dishes we had access to) when plating our samples. This caused serious flaws in our results which can be proven by the inconsistent quantitative data. Our results were measured both qualitatively, through capturing visual images of the samples’ colonies, and quantitatively, through counting the number of colonies grown by each sample. From the multiple errors that occurred during the procedure, we could not determine a pattern.