How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?

by Gabby Beddingfield and Rickayla Myles

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Often, debates will begin during homeroom: Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is a pop tart a calzone? While these are excellent questions, the one that has had the most effect is this: does a straw have two holes or one?

Two staff writers were tasked with presented both sides of the issue.

Gabby Beddingfield: A Straw Has Two Holes

Obviously, a straw has two holes. Looking at a straw, there are two ends. There is a hole on each end, and the inside is open. Some people say that there is only one hole that goes the whole way through, but the hole exists on an end. A hole is just an opening, like a door. The hole does not go the whole way through the straw. That is a void between each opening, not a hole. Look at bendy straws. When they are bent, how can one hole go through the whole way? The hole would have to bend. There is empty space on the inside of a straw, and that space can bend. Just because there is open space on the inside of the straw, does not mean that the hole goes the entire way through it. Two holes can be made at the same time, but that does not mean that they are one. Therefore, there are two holes in a straw, with a void on the inside opened up by the two holes.

Rickayla Myles: A Straw Has One Hole

A straw has one hole. If you cut a straw from each end of it that means it is exactly one hole. A hole must also have two endings to be an actual hole. It is just like saying that if you had gone through a tunnel you would enter from one hole and exit the other way. Additionally, if you stuck something in the straw it would be closed, which means if there were two holes there would be another opening to the straw, which there is not in this case. There is no possible way for a straw to have two holes because if it did have two holes there would be liquid coming out of the straw has you are drinking out of the cup.