Part 2

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Proportions of Skittles

Re Orang Yello Gree Purpl

d e w n e
Expected .2 .2 .2 .2 .2
Proportion
Actual .19 .21 .2 .19 .21
Proportion
You would expect that each color be equally proportioned
throughout the bags. The actual proportion was pretty close.
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Skittles Data

330 293

318
298

306

Red Orange Yell ow Green Purpl e

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I don’t think that this sampling would be considered random,

because chance or randomness did not play a part in deciding
which individuals are in the sample, because it was
predetermined to be the whole class. This would be closer to a
cluster sample, but even then, every class participated so it
wasn’t random at all.
4- Counts

Red Orange Yellow Green Purple Total

My Bag 10 13 10 14 16 63
Class 293 318 306 298 330 1545
Counts

Proportion

Re Orang Yello Gree Purpl Tota

d e w n e l
My Bag .16 .21 .16 .22 .25 1
Class .18 .21 .2 .19 .19 1
Counts
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The counts are all close to being .2 each, which would be

expected for the bags so that each bag had an equal number of
each color per bag. In my bag, I had an unusually high number
of purple in my bag. A quarter of my bag was purple instead of
the expected .2. My red and yellow colors ended up being less
than expected by .04 each. This was not normal because the
data shows that each color ended up being closer to .2 per bag
per color. My bag ended up having the second highest total
number of candies in my bag. This can make my proportions
different because of the higher number of canides.

Part 3
1. Using the total number of candies in each bag in our class
sample, compute the following measures for the variable “Total
candies in each bag”:
(a) mean: 59.4
(b) standard deviation: 2.4
(c) Min: 53 Q1: 58 Median: 59 Q3: 60 Max:
67
2.

Total Candies In Each Bag

14

12

10
Frequency

0
53-55 56-57 58-59 60-61 62-63 64-65 66-67
Number In Each Bag

3.
4. The shape of the distribution is bell shaped and evenly
distributed. I found the mean number of candies to be around
59.4 candies per bag. This makes sense because in random
distributions there are always outliers.
5. There are two types of variables in statistics. They are
categorical and quantitative data. Categorical variables
describe groups of things, like the colors of the skittles. The
quantitative variable describes the number of or percentages
of the data. Pie graphs make sense for categorical data
because it is well seen. Histograms and box plots are used for
quantitative data because it is easier to see the data layed
out. Also, quantitative data tends to be evenly distributed in
random sampling.

Part 4

1. Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the

population proportion of yellow candies.

Lower: 9.89

Upper: 13.65
2. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the
population mean number of candies per bag.

Lower: 58.48

Upper: 60.37

3. I am 99% positive that in any bag of skittles, there will be

between 9.89 and 13.65 yellow candies in each bag.

I am 95% positive that in any bag of skittles there will be

between 58.48 and 60.37 number of skittles.

4. The confidence intervals help us to make statements

about a population based off of samples. By using the data
we can be 95% sure that in any given bag of skittles, there
will be between 9.89 and 13.65. This is proven by using the
confidence intervals. Same as the amount of skittles per
bag.