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Eric Martinez

Professor Rania

Math 1040

6/29/17

Skittle Project

The main purpose of this project is to gather 2.17-ounce bag of skittles from each

member of the classroom to gather the data, so we can determine the descriptive statistical study

of the whole classroom and possibly assume the same for every skittle bag around the whole

globe.
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The Pie Charts and Bar Plots explain the skittle project from each member of the class

that had a 2.17-ounce skittle bag. My data from the bag of skittles was 9 Red, 15 Orange, 14

Yellow, 14 Green, and 13 Purple skittles. I was amazed that over 3/5 of my colors did not match
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with my peers from the classroom. The red and purple skittles did match with the class for the

most part. The Pie chart explains the percentage of each color, and the pareto chart explains the

shape of each color for example all colors are skewed right.

For this exercise, we will obtain the mean for each bag from each student in the

classroom. The mean from each bag is 13, 11.2, 11.8, 11.8, 12.2, 12, 12, 13.2, 12, 13, 11.8, 12.

By having this data of means from each bag we can calculate the new mean which is 12.17, the

standard deviation is .57, minimum # is 11.2, quartile 1 is 11.8, the median is 12, quartile 3 is

12.6, the maximum # is 13.2. The Boxplot explains the 5 number summary, and the shape of this

boxplot is skewed right with all the quartiles on site.

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The shape of the histogram is nothing because it does not match skewed left or right, or

symmetric. By observing the data, we can conclude that most students averaged 12 with all the

means combined, the histogram looks accurate I averaged at 13 mean and 2 other peers got the

same as me.

For the reflection, categorical data consists of the distribution along with descriptive

quantitative names like the number of individuals that failed the test, or the number of students

that passes the test. The names have meaning in categorical, as for just quantitative the names

have no meaning at all it describes a location for example 84081 zip code is a quantitative
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subject. When it comes to graphs the only one that will make sense is the categorical graphs

because it shows the distribution of each quantitative subject for example: