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For a school project, students counted the number of different colored Skittles in a bag. They compared their individual counts to the class totals. Most students had around 20% of each color, with a few outliers. The student's counts were close to the expected distribution, with slightly more green and yellow than the class average. A histogram showed that most students had between 49-67 Skittles in their bag, with a mean of around 60 Skittles. The student's bag contained 59 Skittles, within one standard deviation of the class mean.

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1040 Project

For a school project, students counted the number of different colored Skittles in a bag. They compared their individual counts to the class totals. Most students had around 20% of each color, with a few outliers. The student's counts were close to the expected distribution, with slightly more green and yellow than the class average. A histogram showed that most students had between 49-67 Skittles in their bag, with a mean of around 60 Skittles. The student's bag contained 59 Skittles, within one standard deviation of the class mean.

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For this project we were instructed to buy a bag of skittles and count the

separate amounts of the different colors in the bag. Then we gave our color
counts to be compared with everyone in the class. Then we compared data
and looked at the differences in numbers.
Then we took the proportions of our individual numbers compared to the
class as a whole. Here is a pie chart and a pareto chart comparing.
AMOUNT OF COLORS

yellow
red
orange
green
purple

Yellow: 0.208
Red: 0.206
Orange: 0.203
Green: 0.192
Purple: 0.191

AMOUNT OF COLORS
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
green

red

purple

orange

yellow

This observation is pretty much expected. When you take 100% of the bag of
skittles and divide it by five flavors, you should get roughly 20% of each
flavor. My data, as well as the classs data proved this to be pretty correct.
With the exception of a few outliers, most amounts were consistent with the
expected result.

MINE COMPARED TO CLASS TOTAL


600
500
400
mine

300

overall
200
100
0
yellow

red

orange

green

purple

Then we were asked to find the sample means and compare it to the class in
a box plot. Which I drew by hand, and also make a histogram noting the
frequency from amount of candies in a bag and how frequent they were.

frequency histogram
20
15
frequency 10
5
0

49-51

52-54

55-57

58-60

amount per bag

61-63

64-67

The distributions seemed to be a little skewed left. However, it is basically


bell curved because the numbers are so close together. The mean and
mostly distributed were about 60-61 so this graph seemed to project that
fairly well. The classs comparison fit mine pretty well. I fell around 59
skittles in my bag which was within one standard deviation from the mean
which was 60.154. There were about 39 kids included in the data set and on
an avg. color based scale it was about the same, with the exception of an
unusual amount of green and yellow.

Red

Mine

Class avg.

13

12.4

Orange

10

12.2

Yellow

12.5

Green

17

11.5

Purple

11

11.5

Categorical Data is grouped data vs. quantitative data is measured numerical


data. So quantitative data can be categorical, but not all categorical data is
necessarily quantitative. Comparison graphs would go under categorical data
because you are categorizing while comparing the graphs. Quantitative data
is any graph that is showing the measure of a set of data. So measuring the
amount of skittles in a bag and finding its standard deviation from the mean
was a prime example of quantitative data.

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