Shayla Oliver

Paul Filatov
Jamie Kelly
Kylie Hicks
Courtney Hunt
Zoey Brown
Kathryne Brown

Group Skittles Project

1. Are there any identifiable problems with the data? If so, how did you as a group deal
with the issues? Why?
There are stats that claim a bag is full of hundreds of each 5 colors, and
that isnt physically possible in the bag size we built the stats off of. There is also
one bag that has a total of 98 items in it, and thats much higher than the average
bag, and with it being about 30 (give or take) more than the other bags of skittles,
it seems unlikely that its the right size bag. Also, there was one person who did
not calculate their purples. The numbers below are computed with all included.

2. Determine the proportion of each color within the overall sample gathered by the
class.
FIRST: Guess!
What do you expect the proportions to be? Why? I would imagine the
proportions would be fairly close, considering the numbers are quite close for all
of the bags, give or take one.

Red: 19.60%
Orange: 20.49%
Yellow: 19.63%
Green: 20.16%
Purple: 20.12%

Well if the proportions for the class are anything similar to our own bag of
candy we would expect there to be almost even proportions for each color, with
maybe one color having a slightly higher proportion than the rest.
3. In StatCrunch, create a pie chart and a Pareto chart for the total number of candies of
each color in our class data set. Submit copies of your graphs in this report.
Well if the proportions for the class are anything similar to my own bag of candy I would
expect there to be almost even proportions for each color, with maybe one color having
a slightly higher proportion than the rest.
4. Does the class data represent a random sample? What would the population be?
Collaborate to discuss sampling and our data in a paragraph or two.

Yes, the class represents a random sample because we all bought the bags of
candy from various locations and each bag has a random amount of each color. The
population would be people who bought a 2.17 oz bag of original skittles. You could even
get more specific and say the population is students from Salt Lake Community College
who bought a 2.17 oz bag of regular skittles.