Andrea Collier

2
nd
Hour AP Statistics
5/12/14
Are Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks worth the price?
One of the oldest made fruit snacks, Scooby Doo, has changed their recipe after 10 years.
That does not seem terrible, but usually when companies change the recipe of their food, they
downsize the sizing of the amount food used. I chose to use the Scooby Doo fruits snacks
because I have noticed a change in the amount of fruits being put into the packages, even though
the company has not change the amount they have claimed to have in each packet. The weight
that the company has maintained that they put into each packet of fruit snacks is 22.6 grams. I (or
rather my mom) brought 2 boxes that contained 10 packets of fruit snacks. Each box cost $2.00,
which means that each packet of fruit snacks that is supposed to contain 22.6 grams of fruit
snacks would cost about $.20 cents each. So the question is if the fruit snacks are worth the price,
considering that each should contain 22.6 grams worth of fruit snacks.
Procedure: This project will examine if the Scooby Doo fruit snacks are worth the price based on
the mean weight of the packets weighed. I randomly selected 15 packets of fruit snacks from the
20 packets brought and weighed each. I randomly selected the packets by numbering each packet
from 1-20 and then used Line 122 on Table B to randomly choose which packets I would use.
Here is a data table of the data:
Packet # Amount of grams
in each
1 22.8
2 22.5
3 25.6
4 23.7
5 21.7
6 22.0
7 24.0
8 22.6
9 23.2
10 24.4
11 23.3
12 23.7
13 22.5
14 23.1
15 24.2


Using the information in the data table, I found:
x =23.3 grams

= 1.02
df= 14
= 22.6 grams
t-statistic = .68
Before I calculated the figures, I made the null and alternative hypothesis:
H
0:

= 22.6
H
a: <
22.6
Confidence interval for a 95% confidence level: 23.3 +/- (1.761)(1.02)= 21.503 to 25.096
Type I Error: Rejecting that the mean weight is less 22.6 when in fact it is
Type II Error: Accepting that the mean weight is less than 22.6 when in fact it is not
Conclusion: I accepted that the mean weight was less than or equal to 22.6, but the mean weight
was actually more than 22.6. I felt that it was safer to do this than to assume that the weight was
equal or more than the 22.6 grams. There is a 9.13% chance that I would have a sample of fruit
snacks that would be more than 22.6. The p-value of .0913 is higher than I expected but overall,
the calculations proved that the company that makes Scooby Doo fruit snacks, Betty Crocker, is
giving their consumers more for their money.