1. What proportion (or percentage) of the Skittles do you expect to see of each color?

Why?
I expect most of them to be pretty similar with some variation because of what I
observed in my skittle bag. I predict 30% red, 15% orange, 25% yellow, 10% green
, and 20% purple.
Report the proportion of each color within the overall sample gathered by the class.

Count Red Count Orange Count Yellow Count Green Count Purple

Expected Proportion
30% 15% 25% 10% 20%
Observed Proportion
21.7% 19.6% 22.2% 17.7% 18.7%

2. 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.
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3. 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. Think carefully about the definition of random
sample when you work on your response.
Yes, this would be a random sample because the skittle bought didn’t originate from the same
place presumably. We all bought them at different locations and at different times therefore it is
random. The Population is all the skittle bags bought in our class for this assignment.
4. Create a table that displays the proportions by color and the total count from your own bag of
candies together with the proportions by color and total count for the entire class sample.

Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion

Total
Red Orange Yellow Green Purple

My Bag
18 10 15 7 11 61
Class Counts
600 541 613 490 517 2761

5. Write a well thought out paragraph discussing your observations of this data. Respond to the
following prompts:
• Do the graphs reflect what you expected to see? Are there any surprises?

Yes, I predicted that the graphs would be similar to mine but with some variation. There
wasn’t much surprises, but I’m surprised how my bag ended very similar to the class
total except for yellow.
• Are there any observations that appear to be outliers? If so, what impact might they have on
graphics and summary statistics?

It doesn't appear there are any outliers. All the results appear to be close together.

• Does the distribution of colors in the total class data match with your own data from your single
bag of candies or are they different?

They are very similar except for the red and yellow switching spots for first place.
Everything else matches up with slight variation with the percentages.