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Group Students: Samir WIlliams, Vernaldo

Ramdath, Jayden Winchester, Vijesh Dhansar,
Abayomi Coker

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School: Waterloo Secondary School

Subject Teacher: Michelle Ackbarali

Topic: Distribution

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Subject: Additional Mathematics
 Table Of Contents

Page 3 - Acknowledgement

Page 4: Project Title

Page 5: Introduction

Page 6: Method of Data collection

Page 7: Presentation of Data

Page 11: Analysis

Acknowledgement
 Project Title
To determine if the colours of 12 packs of skittles are evenly distributed.
 Introduction
Skittles are a widely known snack across the world for its unique taste
and wide variety of flavours in a one package made for any age group
for children and also for adults.

One day Jayden was eating a pack of skittles, Vernaldo asked for
some skittles and he got three red and two purple, Vijesh asked “how
didn’t he get no yellow or orange is the skittles distributed evenly?”.
Our group decided to determine if the colours of 3 packs of skittles
were evenly distributed.

Our group’s aim is to determine whether the "colour distribution" of 10

packs of skittles, are evenly or unevenly distributed.
 Method of data collection
Step 1: We Planned to buy 12 packs of 2 oz of original Skittles that were
the same size,4 packs were bought from Xtra foods, 3 from Felicity Gas
Station and 3 from Price Club this will be the control variable.

Step 2: We bought 4 packs of Skittles from 3 different stores, which

would be the manipulating variable

Step 3: Count the colours red, green and yellow of the Skittles, which
would be the responding variable

Step 4: The number of different colours of skittles were recorded in a pie

chart and bar charts.
 Presentation of Data

Figure 1: Column chart showing the recorded amount of Skittles for

three colours and the location it was bought.
Figure 2: Pie chart showing the percentage of the total of three colours
distributed.
Figure 3: Column chart showing the average of the colours recorded.
Figure 4: Column chart showing the modal score of each of the colours.
 Analysis
Figure 1, page 7 shows the difference in Skittles distributed in relation to
the places it was bought from Xtra Foods’s batch of Skittles was deemed
to have more red, green and yellow Skittles than Felicity’s Gas Station
or Price Club’s Skittles.

Figure 2, page 8 shows a pie chart of the total percent of Skittles, the pie
chart showed that there were more red Skittles than all of the other
colours. Red took 30.6% of the pie chart whilst 35.8% was green and
33.5% were Yellow.

Figure 3, page 9 shows a column chart showing the average of the

coloured Skittles, red skittles barely passed green with the red Skittle’s
average being 17.66 to green Skittle’s 17 and yellow Skittle’s 20.66.

Figure 4, Page 10 shows a Column chart showing the modal score of

each colours, the top modal score is the red skittle with 27, Green skittle
with 25 and yellow skittle with 23.
 Conclusion
To summarise, the SBA showed the number of colours in 12 packs of
Skittles. The colours of Skittles were not evenly distributed in a pack, as
shown by this SBA. The amount of colours in a pack may differ from that of
the next pack, and there may be more Skittles in a pack than in the previous
one. To ensure that the Skittles were from different batches, more packs from
different locations were examined. To avoid an error, we bought Skittles
from different stores to avoid them having the same amount of Skittles from
the same batches.