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CSEC MATHEMATICS

Year of Examination:2023

Subject:Mathematics

Candidate Names: Ronnie Hoyte,Hassan Elis,Brandon Sealy

Candidate Numbers:

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Center Name:Name of teacher:Mr.L.Worrell

Topic of Assessment: To investigate if packaged skittles are biased towards a particular color.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
Title: 3
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE 4
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION 5
PRESENTATION OF DATA 6
ANALYSIS OF DATA 7

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TITLE:
To investigate if packaged skittles are
biased towards a particular color.

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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE

Skittles are multicolored fruit-flavored button-shaped candies produced by

the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, Inc. Skittles consist of hard sugar
shells imprinted with the letter 'S', they are made from Sugar, Corn Syrup,
Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil Citric Acid, Tapioca Dextrin,,, Sodium
Citrate,and Carnauba,. Skittles come in five different colors, these being
red, orange, yellow, green, and purple.This SBA is applied to
statistics.Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection,
analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data.The
area of statistics that this SBA will be about is probability. Probability is the
branch of statistics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an
event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. To make this
experiment a fair test 5 packages of skittles will be counted to see if fruit
loops are biased towards any colors.

The objective of this experiment is to find out if skittles are biased towards
any of its five colors.

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 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
This experiment was conducted on the 17th of January 2023. 5 packages
of skittles were counted and divided into different groups. The amounts of
skittles were noted on a sheet of paper The paper had 5 titles representing
each color in a pack of skittles and a stroke was placed next to the number
on the paper which corresponded with the color of each pack. This
information was then placed in a tally chart and presented below for
analysis.

Table 1: The raw results of the amount of colors in the 5 packs

COLOR: PACK 1 PACK 2 PACK 3 PACK 4 PACK 5 TOTAL:

RED 6 9 7 12 7 41

YELLOW 11 10 14 12 13 60

PURPLE 9 7 6 11 10 43

ORANGE 14 12 15 9 12 62

GREEN 13 15 10 9 10 62

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PRESENTATION OF DATA
Table 2: Pie Chart showing the percentage of color that was chosen from the five packs

Table 3:BAR CHART

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ANALYSIS OF DATA
The Maximum number of skittles chosen from the pack was 63 whereas the minimum number
chosen was 41.The mean of this data is found by multiplying each outcome (x) by its
corresponding frequency (f), finding their sum then dividing it by the total frequency.

COLOR (x) FREQUENCY (f) fx