Chapter 12.1, Problem 11AYU

Applying the Concepts

11. NW Plain M&Ms According to the manufacturer of M&Ms, 13% of the plain M&Ms in a bag should be brown, 14% yellow, 13% red, 24% blue, 20% orange, and 16% green. A student randomly selected a bag of plain M&Ms. He counted the number of M&Ms that were each color and obtained the results shown in the table. Test whether plain M&Ms follow the distribution stated by M&M/Mars at the α = 0.05 level of significance

Color	Frequency
Brown	57
Yellow	64
Red	54
Blue	75
Orange	86
Green	64