Stevie Smith

Introduction:

Our class had to purchase skittle bags, count how many skittles of each color were in the bag,
and submit the data to our professor. We are then to use the data to create a histogram,
boxplot, 5 number summary, mean, and standard deviation. I completed these objectives and
created the charts with excel.

Organizing and Displaying Categorical Data: Colors

The pie graph for the class showed that most of the colors were about the same probability,
which was expected. My data compared to the class data was similar how they are close,
however while red was one of the highest probabilities in the class set, it was the lowest in
mine.

Organizing and Displaying Quantitative Data: The Number of Candies per Bag:

The shape of the distribution is skewed to the left. There were fewer bags with less skittles in
them. My bag fell in the 2nd class set and was below average for the total number of skittles.
The graphs did reflect what I expected to see based on my data.

Reflection:

Categorical data is based upon the different categories (red, orange, yellow, purple, green) and
the quantitative data is based upon numbers (skittles per bag). Graphs that make sense for
categorical data are pie charts and bar graphs, and graphs that dont make sense are scatter
plot and line graph. This is because the graphs that do make sense can clearly label the
categories and are easily readable, while the others cant. Graphs that make sense for the
quantitative data are histogram and box-plot because they are able to display the data in
numerical sets and its easy to read.

Three interval results:

1. We are 99% confident that the population proportion of yellow Skittles lies between 0.1663
and 0.2139
2. From the information gathered, we are 95% confident that the true value of the population
mean number of candies per bag is between 61.2532 and 63.1606
3. We can say with 98% confidence that the true value of the population standard deviation of
the number of candies per bag is between _______________

Hypothesis Test
The confidence intervals are boundaries of x where a specific percentage will fall between
those two numbers. I believe we were provided the correct information to calculate the
requested information. There are two types of possible errors: One being type I error where
alpha is normal but is rejected. The other being beta where you accept the null hypothesis
when it should have been rejected. The sample method could be improved by having more
bags of Skittles to use in comparison. In conclusion, I have come up with the idea that you will
get about 62 candies in each bag of Skittles. I would assume that about 20% of them would be
the desired color since we are working with only 5 colors; that would make sense. But because
our sample size was small and the null hypothesis was EXACTLY 20%, I came up with that not
being the case. Nonetheless, you get a decent amount of candies and get to enjoy the taste of
Skittles.