I stocked up on paper towels a while back. I bought two packages of the same brand. One was marked as a triple roll; the other, a double roll.
The triple roll claimed to have 135 sheets; the double roll, 110 sheets.
This doesn’t make sense.
Based on the quantity of sheets in the double roll, the triple roll should have 165 sheets (3 x 110 / 2). But it has only 82% of the required number of sheets. It also means that a single roll should have only 55 sheets.
The other discrepancy appears in the sheet dimensions. The triple roll sheet is defined as 11” by 5.9” while the double roll sheet is 11” by 6”. Perhaps the 6” dimensions is really 5.9” rounded up to the nearest inch. Otherwise, it would mean the triple roll falls even shorter of the required quantity; not only are there fewer sheets, but they’re smaller, too!
And if you notice, the dimensions are for the “half sheet” not the full sheet.
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