Madeleine Smith, Angela Clayton

Math 1040
Skittles Project
April 12, 2016
Skittles Confidence Intervals
(1)

1. /2

is the formula we use to find the interval for the population proportion.

Here, is 1% so /2 = .05%. The Z value of .05 = 2.576. p = 566/2997 = .189.

. 189(1 .189)
. 189 2.576
= (.171, 2.07)
2997
This means that we can be 99% confident that the population proportion is between .171 and
2.07.
2. /2

is the formula we use to find the interval for the population mean. We put all of

the results for skittles in a big into a list in the calculator, and did a 1 variable test on the list. S =
8.868, n = 49, x = 61.163. The t value of .025, /2, at 48 degrees of freedom, n-1, is 2.011.
61.16. 2.011

8.868
= (58.615, 63.711)
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This mean we can be 95% confident that the population mean is between 58.615 and 63.711.
(1)2

3. (

2
2

(1)2
2 1
2

) are the two formulas we used to find the interval of the standard

deviation. We used the same s = 8.868 and n = 49. /2 = . 01. The x^2 value of .01 = 73.683.
And the x^2 value of .99 is 142.386. These are both with 48 degrees of freedom.
Plugging those values into our interval formulas and taking the square root of them yields the
result: (7.158, 11.933)
This means that we can be 98% confident that the standard deviation estimate is between 7.158
and 11.933