Skittles Project

By: Haley McIntosh

Introduction:
Each person in our statistics class purchased a bag of skittles and counted
each color and put it into a data sheet. We want to determine if each color of
skittles is distributed evenly throughout the world by just using our sample size. We
will be organizing and displaying categorical data (color), organizing and displaying
Quantitative data, finding the confidence interval estimates, and hypothesis testing.

OrganizingandDisplayingCategoricalData:Colors
My results:
Number of
red candies
14

Number of
orange
candies
19

Number of
yellow
candies
12

Number of
green
candies
8

Number of
purple
candies
9

The Whole Class:

TOTAL
mean
std. dev.
variance
proportio
n

292
11.68
3.338163
168
11.14333
333

307
12.28
3.372931
465
11.37666
667

299
11.96
4.217819
342

317
12.68
4.069397
99

17.79

297
11.88
3.345643
934
11.19333
333

16.56

1512
60.48
1.758787
461
3.093333
333

0.19

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.21

My Bag

The whole Class

317

19

292

307

297
12

orange

Red

299

14

yellow

purple

green

red

orange

green

purple

Number of Candies
(My Bag)
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2

orange

Red

yellow

purple

green

Number of Candies
(The Whole Class)
350
300
250
200
150
100
50

purple

orange

yellow

green

red

yellow

My bag of candies shows that there are more orange candies and in the class
sample there are more purple candies. I believe the pie graph is a better way to see
the distribution between my bag of candies and the whole class.

OrganizingandDisplayingQuantitativeData:theNumberofCandiesper
Bag
Total of Candies: 1512
Mean: 60.48
Std. Dev: 1.7588

5-Number Summary
Minimum
55
Q1

60

Median
Q3

61
62

Maximum

63

56

60

61

62

63

The box plot is skewed to the left. Indicating that the candies of the whole class
are distributed close together.

ConfidenceIntervalEstimates
Constructa95%confidenceintervalestimateforthetrueproportionof
purplecandies.
N=1512

.189<p<.231

P=.21
CI=95%(.01)
E=.021
Iam95%confidentthattheproportionofallpurplecandieswillfall

between.189and.231.
Constructa99%confidenceintervalestimateforthetruemeannumberof
candiesperbag.
N=25
X=60.48
S=1.76
CI=99%(.01)

59.5736<u<61.3864

E=.9064
Iam99%confidentthatthetruemeannumberofcandiesperbagwill
fallbetween59.57and61.39.
Constructa98%confidenceintervalestimateforthestandarddeviationof
thenumberofcandiesperbag.
N=25

L=(251)(1.76)^2/10.856=6.848

DF=24

R=(251)(1.76)^2/42.980=1.729

S=1.76

1.729<S<6.848

Iam98%confidentthatthestandarddeviationofthenumberof
candiesperbagfallsbetween1.729and6.848.
HypothesisTests
1.)Usea0.01significanceleveltotesttheclaimthat20%ofallSkittles
candiesaregreen.
N=1512
Significancelevel=.01(99%)

A)

P=.19

B)
C)
D)

Failto
hypothesis.
sufficient
allskittles

E)

H0:p=.20
H1:pdoesnot=.20
Z=.35
99%(.01)
Criticalvalue=2.575

rejectnull
Thereisnot
evidencethat20%of
aregreen.

2.)Usea0.05significanceleveltotesttheclaimthatthemeannumberof
candiesinabagofSkittlesis56.
N=25
Df=24
Significancelevel=.05

a)
b)
c)
d)

X=60.48
S=1.76

e)

H0:p=56
H1:pdoesnot=56
T=12.73
Significancelevel=.05
(95%)
CriticalValue=
+/1.96

(95%)

RejecttheNullhypothesis.Thereissufficientevidencethatthemeannumber
ofcandiesinabagofskittlesis56.
Reflection:
Iwouldnthavebeenabletodothisprojectwithoutknowingthematerialin
statistics.Thisassignmentprovesthatstatisticsisusedinoureverydaylives
andwedontevenrealizeit!Byusingstatistics,wecantestastudybyusing
asampleproportionofdata.Now,IcanapplythisinformationtomylifeifI

everwanttotestaproportionsampleagain.Eventhoughitwashardatfirst,
statisticsmakessensenowanditistrulyconvenient!