M & Ms Activity Worksheet

Warning: Do not eat any M&Ms until you are completely finished. Then you
may eat up!
Open your bag, count your total M&Ms, and fill out the table below.
Color

# of this color in your bag

Probability of drawing
one of this color

Purple
Yellow
Brown
Green
Blue
Red
Use this information to answer the following questions. Be sure to show all your
work!
Find the probability of drawing:
1. A purple M&M?
2. 2 green M&Ms if you replace the first one?
3. A brown and then a green M&M if you replace the brown?

4. A blue or a red?

5. A yellow and then a brown (without replacing it)?

6. A blue or a green or a yellow?

7. A brown, replacing it, a green, replacing it, then a yellow?

8. A blue and then a green (without replacing it)?

9. A blue and then another blue (without replacing it)?

10.A yellow and then a blue (without replacing it)?

Now pick any two of these situations and do an experiment with your M&Ms. Try
it 15 times each.
Tally your results on the tables below.
Problem # ________________

Problem # _____________

Successful

Successful

Unsuccessful

Unsuccessful

How close was your experimental probability to the theoretical probability?