Purple

Yellow

Green

Red

Orange

Summary statistics: Colors of Skittles (All Bags)

Column n Mean Variance Std. dev. Std. err. Median
5 615.2 511.7 22.621 10.116 622
Range Min Max Q1 Q3
61 581 642 608 623

Summary statistics: Colors of Skittles (My Bag)

Column n Mean Variance Std. dev. Std. err. Median Range
5 12.4 11.8 3.435 1.536 11 9
Min Max Q1 Q3
9 18 11 13

With this data we can see that with a large group of things being sampled, that we will
generally get an even distribution, and a general even proportion across the entire sample
space. As a class we had proportions of Red .21 Orange .20 Yellow .19 Green .20 and Purple
.20. These proportions are almost exactly the same. There is little variance between them. My
personal bag of Skittles was proportionate Red .29 Orange .18 Yellow .15 Green .21 Purple .18
Summary statistics:
Column n Mean Std. dev. Sum
Amount of Skittles per Bag 51 60.3 3.4 3076
 We can see with our histogram, that we have an even distribution of the amount of
skittles contained in a single bag. The mean is 60.3, there are definitely numbers which are not
within close proximity of the mean. For example 50 is the minimum in this value set, and 67 is
the maximum. But our majority will lie in the area of 58-63 skittles per bag. It is reassuring to see
our graphs matching our calculations on the mean and standard deviation. It is safe to say
moving forward, that if we continued this experiment, we would achieve similar numbers for the
mean.

Reflection
After performing this experiment we can see that there is a difference between
quantitative data, and categorical data. In categorial data, we were using numbers to represent
the amount of different colors of skittle. Color is a qualitative data, therefore we used different
types of graphs to represent its findings. With the quantitative data, we were able to determine
from our calculations the mean, which was 60.3. From that we will be able to predict that on
average, if you buy a bag of skittles you will receive approximately 60 pieces of candy. We can
see from its graph, that it is a normal distribution. The sample size was large enough to provide
a good example of that. From this experiment we have determined, that you will get
approximately 60 pieces of candy, and that they will be about equal in variety of color.

Introduction
 In this experiment, we have taken 51 bags of skittles and counted the amount of each
color in each bag. There are red, orange, yellow, green, and purple skittles in every bag. We
want to know what is the distribution of color within one skittles bag, and compare that to the
sample of 51. We will then count how many skittles are in each bag and calculate its average,
and graph the potentially normal distribution of skittles within a single bag. At the end of the
experiment we should know about how many skittles will be in the average bag, as well as what
will be the amount of red vs blue vs green vs purple vs orange within that package.

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We can be 95% confident, the true mean number of skittles per bag lies between 60 and 62
skittles.
 We know that if we are doing a 95% confidence interval, that we will only have 5% left in
the tails. We need to divide this number by 2 in order to get alpha over 2. We then need to find
our degree of freedom which is n-1. In this case that will be 51-1=50 as our degree of freedom.
We then can compare this with our alpha over 2 and find where they cross in the t chart. This
will give us our E. Then we will do our mean plus E and mean minus E to give us our final
answer at 95% confidence.
We can be 99% confident, that the true proportion of yellow candies in a bag of skittles is
between .171, and .21.
We know that with a 99% confidence interval, we will be having after division, .005
within each tail on the right and left. We know that the critical value will be 2.575

We know that our H naught in this case will be that 20% of all candies in the bag are red,
and that our alternative hypothesis is going to be that there is not 20% red candies within a
skittles bag. With a .05 significance level, we can tell that our critical value will be plus or minus
1.96. Our p fell within the parameters set with a value of 1.21 thus we will not reject the null
hypothesis.

There is not sufficient evidence to say that there is more of less than 20% red skittles per bag

We know that our H naught hypothesis is going to be that the mean number of skittles is
going to be 55. Our alternative hypothesis is that the mean number of skittles in a given bag is
not going to be 55. We can look up the critical values for .01 which appear to be plus or minus
2.575. If the value that we calculate is above or below that number then we will reject our null
hypothesis
There is sufficient evidence to say that the mean number of candies in a bag of skittles is not 55

The conditions have been met to perform these certain tests. We know that this is a
simple random sample of skittles from all over the valley. They have been randomly filled with
the different colors of skittles. Even if our population was not normally distributed, our sample
size is greater than 30, so we know that we are okay to go ahead and use this data to perform
confidence intervals as well as hypothesis tests. The potential problems that can be
encountered while doing this statistical work, is the fact that there are so many different
numbers being used here. One may mis-type a number and that can throw the data off.
Something that can be used to help with the data is to repeat it and to check work in order to
make sure that the math is accurate. Obviously the larger the sample, the closer it will get to the
population when were talking about its mean, so using a large sample can help us to get as
accurate as we can when it comes to our data.