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Final Skittles Project
Final Skittles Project
Math 1010
Skittles Project
In our Introduction to Statistics class this semester, we are doing a
Skittles project. This project will consist of organizing and displaying
categorical data and displaying Quantitative data. We will be obtaining
this data from sorting our own bag of skittles and then also by using
the data from everyones skittle data as a whole. The procedure is that
we will be taking the proportion of each color and using them to create
a Pie Chart and a Pareto Chart. We will also be using the data from the
skittles to calculate class sample, the mean, standard deviation, and 5
number summary. I will be editing and adding more to this
introduction as I proceed through all parts of the project.
12%
17%
Red
Green
22%
Orange
Yellow
31%
Purple
19%
Summary statistics:
Colum n
n
var2
Mean
Std.
dev.
1 59.82352 2.88
7 9
Media Rang Mi Ma Q Q IQ
n
e
n x 1 3 R
61
11
53 64
5 6 3
8 1
Color
Red
Orange
Green
Purple
Yellow
Total
Count
195
205
205
181
204
1017
Proportion
Total
19%
20%
20%
18%
20%
Construct a 99% Confidence Interval estimate for the true proportion of yellow
candies:
Total number of yellow Skittles :X= 204
TotalnumberofSkittles:n=1017
P=204/117=.2006
CriticalValuefor99%Confidence=2.575
Reflection:
This skittles project allowed us to be able to put into a real life situation the things we
have been learning this Semester. I have been overwhelmed from the beginning with this
project, as there have been some things that I have had a hard time understanding, but
little it is starting to sink in. It was fun to be able to take data and apply it in a real life
situation.