PARTI Part I: Skittles Project

This project consists of five parts that you will complete throughout the semester, either alone or
in small groups. This is the signature assignment for this course. Write a paper and upload a pdf
of it for each part.

Part I should include:

Purchase a 2.17-ounce bag of Original Skittles and count the number of candies of each
color in the bag. Also, give the total number of candies in the bag. Report the values in this
format:

Red: 12
Orange: 14
Yellow: 12
Green: 13
Purple: 7
Total: 58

Skittles Project: Part I

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12
Numbers of Skittles

10

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Red Orange Yellow Purple Green
Skittles Colors

Bar Chart of my Results

Answer these questions:

 1. What is the most common color and least common color?

Most Common: Orange Least Common: Purple

2. What is the relative frequency for red Skittles? Note: this is the value for p^ that
you will use in part E below.

12/58= 0.206896552= 0.207

3. Conjecture the number of Skittles of the most common color if you had a bag of
5,000 total Skittles.
5,000*(14/58)=1206.896552=1206.897

Were the Skittles you used a random sample? Explain.

The skittles that I used were not a random sample because they were not equally selected.
Orange, purple and green had different frequency.

Carry out a simulation for red Skittles with 10,000 trials to test of these hypotheses:
H0:p=0.2
HA:p≠0.2

The p-value is 0.8625

Use the RossmanChance applet

at http://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/OneProp/OneProp.htm (Links to an external site.).
Enter 0.2 as the probability of success (heads), the total number of Skittles in your bag as the
sample size, and 10,000 as the number of samples. Click on "Draw Samples" to do the
simulation. Have the app compute a two-sided p-value for your simulation by selecting
"Proportion of Successes" and entering your value for p^from Part C above in the "As extreme
as" box. Then check the box for the "Two-sided" option. The p-value will be printed in red above
the graph of your results. Take a snip or screenshot of your output including all your inputs and
the graph. Based on your p-value and α= 0.05, should you reject or fail to reject the null
hypothesis? What is the appropriate conclusion in context?