Skittles Project

Number of Skittles
2)The shape of the graph is left skewed. I believe it is this shape because in my graph
the majority of the data is on the right but gets dragged out to the left due to the few
ones outside of the common data. Because of this shape the best way to find the center
is to calculate the median and variability will be to calculate the IQR. The median (58)
can be seen in the table below. To calculate the IQR we would compute Q3 - Q1 which
would then equal 2.5.

3) Upper fence: 59 + 1.5 x 2.5 = 62.75 Lower fence: 56.5 - 1.5 x 2.5 = 52.75

This means that these are the outliers: 37, 39, 42, and 52 since these numbers are
below our lower fence. There were no numbers above the upper fence.

4)
1. This is a random sample. Our entire class got a bag of skittles at random.
2. The sample (81) is independent because (n ≤0.05N) these bags of skittles are
likely less than 5% of the population.
3. The sample size we have (81) is above 30 (n ≥30)

Because of these being met, our results for the next two problems should be valid.
5) There is 95% confidence that the interval between 56.38 (rounded to two decimal
places for both) and 58.21 captures the mean number of skittles in a 2.17 oz bag.
6) My bag had 56 skittles.
Ho: u=56 Ha: u≄56 alpha=0.05

Reject Ho. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean number of skittles in a
2.17 oz skittle bag is different that 56.