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Part 3 Skittles
Part 3 Skittles
10/17/19
SLCC
Math 1040
In Math 1040, class in Salt lake community college. The class took a bag of skittles and
counted the numbers of each colors we had in our bag. Then using the data have, we
answered questions related to statistics. This is part 3 of this project. We are asked to find the
mean, Standard Deviation and the 5-numbers summary for the number of candies per bag. As
you can see the table below to see those result. This time we are looking at each individual
student with their bag of skittles and how much candy they had in there bag.
Q1: 59
Q3: 61
Max: 117
To show you visually I created a Histogram and a Box plot, which is also known as a 5-
direction, for the histogram is skewed right. I did not expect that the data would be skewed right
because I thought the data would be more even. The more data you have the more bell shaped or
equal amount you would get. Kind of like heads or tails, you would get a 50/50 chance of getting
each side. It is like that but with skittles. I forgot what it is called but I think its called law of
large numbers. Looking at the Box plot, which is also known as a 5-number summary. There are
two outliers. Outliers are numbers that are way too high or low and should be considered, “to be
not included with the data.” Due to being way “out” of the average. The two outliers are 103 and
117. You can tell the impact of the two outliers on the histogram. The graphics and the summary
statistic are way off. You can even see it in the Box plot with the two dots and with the
histogram by the two last bars. Without 103 and 117 the data may be more accurate if you get rid
of them.