Daniel Bowen

Math 1040
Term Project 3 - Individual
1. My findings in the total candies in each bag was very interesting. The graphs do reflect what
I expected to see. I knew it was going to look the way it was going to once I calculated all
the standard deviations of the individual colors. Those numbers were generally close to
each other and let me know that the deviation between bags wasn't that spread out. This
also showed me that my bag was just as similar to all the other bags. The only deviation that
was higher was the Orange skittle. Its total was 286 so it was what I expected. My total of
candies from my bag was 58 while the total number of bags was 18 throughout the class.
2.

Categorical data consists of values that can be sorted into groups or categories such as,
gender, eye color, favorite pizza toppings, or the most popular types of movies. This type of
data can take on numerical value (like 10 people have blue eyes and 20 people have brown
eyes), but those numbers don't have mathematical meaning. Quantitative (or numerical)
data are values that can be ordered or measured like a person's height, weight, IQ or blood
pressure. It could also include things like, how many teeth a shark has, or how many words
you can type per minute. Quantitative data can also be organized into two subcategories,
discrete data and continuous data. The best kind of graphs for categorical data are pie
charts or bar graphs, because they can easily be labeled for the different categories like
color. Then you can number each bar or piece in the pie chart to show how many there are
of a certain category. Stemplots and boxplots work well for quantitative data, because they
both show the values and how they relate to each other.