Proportion Yellow Candies: Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion

of yellow candies. Use technology to find the interval, and then also verify your result using the
formulas. Show your computations, using an equation editor to format your work. Use a complete
sentence to interpret this interval, in context.

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𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = &$'(#
= +*++ = 0.2217

99% 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 = 𝑍, = 𝑍...+ = 𝑍....* = 2.575

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𝑝̂ (1 − 𝑝̂ ) 0.2217(1 − 0.2217)
99% 𝐶𝐼 = 𝑝̂ ± 𝑍, > = 0.2217 ± >
- 𝑛 1511

0.2217(1 − 0.2217)
𝐶𝐼0 = 0.2217 − > = 0.1942
1511

0.2217(1 − 0.2217)
𝐶𝐼1 = 0.2217 + > = 0.2492
1511

We are 99% confident that the proportion of yellow skittles in a single serving bag is between 0.19 and
0.25

Mean Number of Candies: Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population mean
number of candies per bag. Use technology to find the interval, and then also verify your result using the
formulas. Show your computations, using an equation editor to format your work. Use a complete
sentence to interpret this interval, in context.

Mean candies per bag = 58.11539

Standard deviation = 3.11547
α = 0.05

95% 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 = 𝑡, = 𝑡...* = 𝑡...-* = 2.0
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𝐷𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 = 𝑛 − 1 = 26 − 1 = 25

𝑠 3.11547
95% 𝐶𝐼 = 𝑥 ± 𝑡 M O = 58.11539 ± 2 M O
√𝑛 √25

3.11547
𝐶𝐼0 = 58.11539 − 2 M O = 56.8692
√25

3.11547
𝐶𝐼2 = 58.11539 + 2 M O = 59.3616
√25

We are 95% confident that the population mean of the number of Skittles per a single serving
bag is between 56.87 and 59.36