Team 8

1. Determine the proportion of each color within the overall sample gathered by the class.

FIRST: Guess! What do you expect the proportions to be? Why?

I expected the proportions to be roughly the same for each color, as in each of the 5 colors
representing 20% of the total (4251) number of skittles. Its similar to rolling a die, if you rolled it
1200 times, you'd expect to see each number rolled roughly 200 times, or 1/6 of the time. This
is assuming that the skittles factory produces the same amount of each color and the variability
is produced by the bagging process.

Number Number Number Number Number total

of of orange of yellow of green of purple
red candies candies candies candies
candies
guess 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 100%

actual 20.5% 20.1% 18.7% 20.9% 19.7% 100%

Now open the data set and compute the proportions of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Purple
candies in the class data set. Note that the sample size is the total number of candies collected
by the class.

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.
Team 8

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.

The class data does represent a random sample. The sample would represent the
Skittles population that arrive in the Salt Lake Valley Area.
Our data all comes from a localized area. So, it could be a random sample of that small
area, Salt Lake. However, it would not be a random sample of Utah or of Skittles sold
across the United States because the sample is from such a small area. The area from
which the sample was taken is too small for the sample to be a representative random
sample of Utah or the United states. If we bought bags of Skittles from 50 random cities
in each of the states that would be a random sample of Skittles for the United States. If
we bought 20 bags of skittles from 20 random cities in Utah that would give a random
sample of skittles for the State of Utah.