Nicholas Reimann

Math 1040
Elizabeth Jones

Skittles project Part 3

The following table has the mean, standard deviation, and the five number summary which
consists of the Minimum (Min), Quartile 1 (Q1), Median, Quartile 3 (Q3) , and the Maximum
(max):
Summary statistics:

Column Mean Std. dev. Min Q1 Median Q3 Max

Total Candies in the Bag 60.093023 9.2087276 25 58 59 60 95

Below is a Histogram from the entire class sample of the totals of candies in each bag. As we
look at this histogram, we can see that it is relatively bell shaped or in other words, symmetric.
Most of the data collected shows that most bags of had total of anywhere from 50 to 60
candies. There are a few outliers that are below and above the mean.

Here is a boxplot using the same information from the class data. As we can see here again, the
shape of this is relatively symmetric. We can see where the lower and upper fences are in this
boxplot. Our lower fence is calculated by taking our Q1-(1.5 x IQR). Our IQR is found by taking
Q3-Q1 which is 2. Then we can calculate our lower fence which is 55. The upper fence is
calculated by taking Q3+(1.5 x IQR) which equals 63. We can look at this boxplot and conclude
that we do have a few outliers.

Looking at my information, I had 7 red candies, 13 orange candies, 14 yellow candies, 10 green
candies and 13 purple candies with a total of 57 candies. I can say that my data for the total of
candies in my bag is within the majority of where the data lies looking at both the box plot and
histogram. I expect it to be what I see based on the information we have from our class data.

When we look at data, there are two types of data here: categorical and quantitative.
Categorical data is based on characteristics such as color, type, name, sex, education, race, etc.
We can look and see that they are describing something. Quantitative data is more like
numbers. We can count them, add, subtract, multiply and divide them. It makes sense to use
the numbers to describe something that we are seeing.S