PART 3: Organizing and Displaying Quantitative Data: Total Candies per Bag

TO TURN IN (feel free to copy, paste, and then edit this with your answers into another document)

Using the work, you’ve completed, answer the four questions/prompts below in a single document
called “Skittles_Project_Part_3”. Upload that document to Canvas (Skittles Project Part 3 summary
stats).

1. Summary statistics: Using the total number of candies in each bag in our class sample, compute the
following measures for the variable “Total candies in each bag”, rounding your results to the nearest
tenth, if needed.

Mean number of candies per bag 58.2

Standard deviation of the number of candies per bag 3.0

5-number summary for the number of candies per bag 35,57,59,60,64

2. Histogram: Create a frequency histogram for the variable “Total candies in each bag”.
3. Boxplot: Create a boxplot for the variable “Total candies in each bag”.

Note: Your graphics must have descriptive titles and be appropriately labeled.

4. Number of Candies: Write a well-written and thoughtful paragraph discussing your findings about the
variable “Total candies in each bag”. Address the following in your writing:

• What is the shape of the distribution for “Total candies in each bag? Is this what you expected?
Why?
The shape is a bell curve that is skewed to the left. I’m not surprised since they are
made to be in the bag by weight. So, each bag would roughly have the same amount in
each one. Beside the outliers that would have less than normal or more than normal.
Plus, each graph is shows it in a different way.
• Are there any observations that appear to be outliers? If so, what impact might they have on
graphics and summary statistics?
There is a couple of outliers before the lower fence. The outliers make it so the
histogram isn’t a symmetrical bell.it makes it so it is skewed to the left. With the box
plot it doesn’t really change anything because they are charted separately from the rest
of plot after or before the fences. But for both it would lower the mean and the median
might be off a little because they are there.