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Ashley Workman

Project Part 3

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.

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