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In this sample, thirty-one people collected how many different candy colored pieces are in a bag of
Skittles. The candy colors are categorical data because they are categories of colors. They are not quantitative
because that would mean they are numerical. The graphs do not all agree with each other. You can see that the
overall class ended up having about the same proportion of colors in each bag, all ranging within 18-21%. But, if
you look at the Skittles in my own bag, the pie graph is very uneven, with values ranging anywhere from 6-27%.
So the class and my Skittles bag to not agree to each other; although the group data and class data are more
similar. The more data that was collected, the close it got the actual number. I do not think that my bag of
Skittles represents the population because it was only one bag of Skittles, and we have to have a bigger sample
size to get accurate data. Its hard for me to decide if the group sample is representative of the class data
because it was 9% of the data but the whole class is not greater than 5% of all Skittles bags over the whole
population.
My Skittles
Bag
Bag 1: Row
#7
Bag 2: Row
#31
Bag 3: Row
#6
Sample
Totals
Class Totals
Column
Numbers
Number of
Red
Candies
17
Number of
Orange
Candies
16
Number of
Yellow
Candies
4
Number of
Green
Candies
8
Number of
Purple
Candies
14
Total
Number of
Candies
59
13
11
10
10
17
61
17
16
14
59
13
13
10
20
62
43
33
27
28
51
182
344
361
387
383
392
1867
Q1
361
Median
383
n
31
Mean
373.4
Std. dev.
20.26
Min
344
Q3
387
Max
392
The number of the candies per bag is quantitative data because they are numerical answers, while the
candy colors was categorical because they were color categories. The overall class samples were what I expected
them to be. I expected that as the sample size grew, the values would even out a bit more. Unlike in my Skittles
bag, the numbers were not similar. The shape of most of the graphs were skewed to the right.