Math 1040 - Skittles Term Project Part 2

Group 6 Riley Andrus, Travis Hill, Jaeyoun Jung, Melissa Weldon

1) Determine the proportion of each color within the overall sample gathered by the class.

- We all guessed that the proportion of each color of Skittles would not be evenly
distributed. We always seem to get more red Skittles and get the least amount of purple
Skittles than any other color.
Count Red Count Orange Count Yellow Count Green Count Purple Total
Class Counts 305 279 256 278 261 1,379
Proportion 0.2212 0.2023 0.1856 0.2016 0.1893 1
(22.12%) (20.23%) (18.56%) (20.16%) (18.93%)

2) In StatCrunch, create a pie chart and a Pareto chart for the total number of candies of
each color in our class data set. Submit copies of your graphs in this report.
Here are our Pie Charts -- one with the appropriate corresponding color and one without:
Here is our Pareto Chart:
3) Does the class data represent a random sample? What would the population be?
Collaborate to discuss sampling and our data in a paragraph or two.

- The class data does represent a random sample. At the factories they mix the Skittles
together then package them. We would assume they packaged them by weight and not by
color since there is not the same amount of color of Skittles in each bag. Even though we
probably each bought a Skittle bag from a different location, the sample would still be
random because the colors were random from the point they were packaged. The
population would be all of the 2.17 oz Skittle bags around the world.