PART I:This project is based on numbers of different colored skittles in multiple 2.17 oz bags.

By separating the five different colors, the class came up with cumulative data to represent the
number of colored candies as a whole. I will demonstrate some of the basic statistic procedures
taught in class throughout this project that will be shown through the graphs and work done on
paper. Here is the calculated mean, standard deviation and 5-number summary used from the
total number of candies in each bag from the class sample mean total: 59.1, standard deviation
was 8.43, the five number summary: minimum=27, Q1=58.5, median=61, Q3=62 and

Pareto Chart for the numbers of skittles of each

color
(the colors of each bar represent the color of
skittle)

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0.22
0.216

NUMBERS OF SKITTLES

0.2075

0.197

0.198

0.195
0.189

0.1825

0.17

COLOR OF SKITTLES

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0.200

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Color of skittles

Graph showing the results of my own

bag of skittles

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Number of skittles

13

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RESULTS OF ENTIRE SAMPLE

(colors represent the skittle colors)

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COLORS PER BAG

4
17

15
13

13

10
9

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22

7
13
15

10

12

15

10

15

18

17

13

10

13

14

10
9
11

10
12

16

10

13
8

15
7

9
15

12

13

16
13

18

12

13
12

14

10
15

14
10

15
11

10

12

13

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BAG NUMBERS

15

11

15

11
16

12
7

4
14

18
10

13

12

14

10

15

18
12

14

15
17

12

10

13

8
10

12

12

14

10

17
8

11

10

15

10

14
12

8
8
1

10

12

17

18

19

6
12

15

20

21

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Reflection:The graphs do represent the results that we anticipated from the whole class data.
Some proportions found did seem low, but those may be outliers. The type of histogram the data
created was a skewed distribution. Ultimately, everything did seem to be shown as we had
expected.
In the first section we were making the graphs based on categorical data. Categorical data
consists of names or labels, such as colors.We used a Pie chart and Pareto chart for this
information because it can be categorized to make sense for the data because we are working
with a category. Quantitative data is what we represented in the second section, quantitative
data consists of numbers representing counts or measurements like the mean, standard deviation,
5-number summary.We used quantitative data when making the histogram and box-plot because
those types of graphs make sense for numerical data because we are working with numbers.

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Part II- For part II we were asked to find the confidence intervals for 3 different parts of the
above information. The purpose and meaning of a confidence interval is to show that the true
value is within the population parameters.

PROPORTION OF YELLOW CANDIES

We are 99% confident that the interval 9.875 to 13.459 actually does contain the true value of the
population proportion of yellow skittles.

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TRUE MEAN NUMBER OF SKITTLES PER BAG

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We are 95% confident that the interval from 55.263 to 62.937 actually does contain the true
value of the mean number of skittles per bag.

STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE NUMBER OF SKITTLES PER BAG

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We are 98% confident that the interval from 6.151 to 13.118 actually does contain the true value
of the standard deviation of the number of skittles per bag.