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Brandon Lucero
Math146
Brian Heaven
1 November 2023
Skittles (Mean)
Abstract:
From an original bag of Skittles, a count of green out of the five colors would or at least should be 20%. What I Found out from a bag of 2.17 oz is that 20% is not what the percentage of green comes out to be. The percentage of green I expected to have been 20% but the actual percentage of Green Skittles out of 60 skittles comes out to be 27%. With this information it shows the prediction of 20% even
split is not the case.
Introduction:
Skittles, the candy of fruity colors. In a bag of Skittles, you get Yellow, Green, Orange, Purple and Red. In an Original bag of Skittles, you get an average count of 60. With this knowledge of 60 skittles and in a bag, I expected that out of the 5 colors in a bag that each color would be an even amount of each. The information I found out was that green skittles came out to be the most color skittles in a bag.
Methods of Data Collection:
I Collected my Data Collection by buying an original bag of Skittles (2.17oz) and counted each individual color. The sample size is 60 Skittles. I chose just an original bag to find the most accurate average of each color.
Results:
16 Green Skittles with a proportion of 27%
12 Red Skittles with a proportion of 20%
11 Yellow Skittles with a proportion of 18%
10 Orange Skittles with a proportion of 17%
11 Purple Skittles with a proportion of 18%
With the data I collected I can confidently say that the true proportion of green skittles comes to be 27% if we say every bag contains 60 Skittles.
Skittle Color
Proportion
Percentage
Green
16/60
27%
Other Colors
44/60
73%
Appendix:
Source of Data:
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Data Obtained from an original bag of Skittles.
Data Values:
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Green: 16/60 or 27%
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Not Green: 44/60 or 73%
Calculations:
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Successes: 16
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N = 60
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C level: 95%
Conclusion:
One Thing I would change in this study if I were to redo this experiment is to do multiple studies instead of just one. But I did find out that Skittles do not divide the colors evenly and that one color is more then the others (in this experiment being green).
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