Rachael Avery

Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones

For the skittles project, everyone in my class was required to buy a 2.17 oz.
bag of original Skittles, and tally up the number of red, orange, yellow, green and
purple candies in their bag. The count of Skittles needed to be only whole pieces,
no partial broken candies. My skittle count is shown in the table below.

Orang Total
Red e Yellow Green Purple In Bag

17 16 4 13 11 61

After all the Skittle counts were tallied, they were then put into an excel sheet.
From the excel sheet I will organize, analyze the data through many different
formats. Below are pie charts, each chart will show the proportion of each colored
candy.

I didnt expect to see just drastic differences in the numbers of each candy that is
put into a bag of skittles, I expected each color to have number close together. My
bag of skittles was about average for the number of skittles in a bag, the average
was 55, I had 61 skittles in my bag. I dont think the class room data agreed with
my bag of skittles, there is a large range how many of one color could show up in a
bag. The only thing that I found consistent with my bag of skittles and the rest of
the classes skittles was the total.

Skittle population

red
497 513 orange
yellow
green
491 purple
496

518

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Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones

8
28%

13

13
13

red orange yellow green purple

Using a Pareto Chart to display qualitative data is a great way to quickly see
which category has the most and which has the least. For our population,
the yellow had the most and the green had the fewest, compared to my own
bag that had more purple and the least red. Comparing these two charts
shows how as the sample size increases the probabilities of a certain
outcome also change.

My Skittles
14

12

10

0
Red Orange Yellow Green Purple

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Rachael Avery
Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones

Organizing and displaying quantitative data to find statistics such as the

mean and standard deviation can also be done in many ways. A couple
different ways of displaying quantitative data are frequency histograms and
boxplots. Knowing the mean and standard deviation, as well as the quartiles
is helpful in determining if a set of data is normally distributed. In this
observation, we used the total number of skittles per bag for the 42 students
who participated in the experiment.

Total #of skittles per bags

Column Mean Variance Std. dev.

Population 59.9 11.0 3.32

Sample
Statistics

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Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones

Taste the rainbow 5 number summary

Column Median Range Min Max Q1 Q3

Population 60 12 53 65 59 62
Sample
Statistics

According to our frequency histogram this set of data looks to be normally

distributed. The distribution is close to a bell shape. For this histogram and
boxplot there were 42 total bags of skittles with as few as 53 and as many
as 65 skittles per bag. My personal bag of skittles had 61 candies. The x-
axis represents the #of skittles per bag and the y-axis represents the
number of bags that contained a specific # of skittles.

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Rachael Avery
Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones

Reflection:
The two types of data shown are categorical and quantitative data. The information
is the same but its the difference in how they were shown. Categorical data is
shown by being placed in a category and then using that to show you the difference
in the data. Quantitative data is data that can be measured and be written down.
For the categorical data, I found that the pareto chart didnt make as much sense as
the pie chart did. The reason I think the pie chart made more sense for sorting this
data is because of how easy it is to see the difference in how each bag of skittles by
color. For the quantitative data I found the boxplot, and histograms harder to use
than the table of just values. The one that made the most sense to use was the
information with the mean, and range. Using that table allowed for me to easily see
the information and identify how my information differed from the classes.

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Rachael Avery
Statistics 1040
Elizabeth Jones