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    1) The student collected data by counting the number of skittles of each color in a bag and submitted it to their professor. They created charts in Excel including a histogram, boxplot, and other analyses. 2) The pie chart for the class showed similar probabilities for each color as expected, though red was the student's lowest while one of the highest for the class. 3) The distribution of candies per bag was skewed left, with fewer bags containing less skittles and the student's bag being below average. The graphs matched the student's expectations based on their data.

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    1) The student collected data by counting the number of skittles of each color in a bag and submitted it to their professor. They created charts in Excel including a histogram, boxplot, and other analyses. 2) The pie chart for the class showed similar probabilities for each color as expected, though red was the student's lowest while one of the highest for the class. 3) The distribution of candies per bag was skewed left, with fewer bags containing less skittles and the student's bag being below average. The graphs matched the student's expectations based on their data.

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    1) The student collected data by counting the number of skittles of each color in a bag and submitted it to their professor. They created charts in Excel including a histogram, boxplot, and other analyses. 2) The pie chart for the class showed similar probabilities for each color as expected, though red was the student's lowest while one of the highest for the class. 3) The distribution of candies per bag was skewed left, with fewer bags containing less skittles and the student's bag being below average. The graphs matched the student's expectations based on their data.

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    1) The student collected data by counting the number of skittles of each color in a bag and submitted it to their professor. They created charts in Excel including a histogram, boxplot, and other analyses. 2) The pie chart for the class showed similar probabilities for each color as expected, though red was the student's lowest while one of the highest for the class. 3) The distribution of candies per bag was skewed left, with fewer bags containing less skittles and the student's bag being below average. The graphs matched the student's expectations based on their data.

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    Stevie Smith

    Introduction:

    Our class had to purchase skittle bags, count how many skittles of each color were in the bag,
    and submit the data to our professor. We are then to use the data to create a histogram,
    boxplot, 5 number summary, mean, and standard deviation. I completed these objectives and
    created the charts with excel.

    Organizing and Displaying Categorical Data: Colors

    The pie graph for the class showed that most of the colors were about the same probability,
    which was expected. My data compared to the class data was similar how they are close,
    however while red was one of the highest probabilities in the class set, it was the lowest in
    mine.

    Organizing and Displaying Quantitative Data: The Number of Candies per Bag:

    The shape of the distribution is skewed to the left. There were fewer bags with less skittles in
    them. My bag fell in the 2nd class set and was below average for the total number of skittles.
    The graphs did reflect what I expected to see based on my data.

    Reflection:

    Categorical data is based upon the different categories (red, orange, yellow, purple, green) and
    the quantitative data is based upon numbers (skittles per bag). Graphs that make sense for
    categorical data are pie charts and bar graphs, and graphs that dont make sense are scatter
    plot and line graph. This is because the graphs that do make sense can clearly label the
    categories and are easily readable, while the others cant. Graphs that make sense for the
    quantitative data are histogram and box-plot because they are able to display the data in
    numerical sets and its easy to read.

    Three interval results:

    1. We are 99% confident that the population proportion of yellow Skittles lies between 0.1663
    and 0.2139
    2. From the information gathered, we are 95% confident that the true value of the population
    mean number of candies per bag is between 61.2532 and 63.1606
    3. We can say with 98% confidence that the true value of the population standard deviation of
    the number of candies per bag is between _______________

    Hypothesis Test
    The confidence intervals are boundaries of x where a specific percentage will fall between
    those two numbers. I believe we were provided the correct information to calculate the
    requested information. There are two types of possible errors: One being type I error where
    alpha is normal but is rejected. The other being beta where you accept the null hypothesis
    when it should have been rejected. The sample method could be improved by having more
    bags of Skittles to use in comparison. In conclusion, I have come up with the idea that you will
    get about 62 candies in each bag of Skittles. I would assume that about 20% of them would be
    the desired color since we are working with only 5 colors; that would make sense. But because
    our sample size was small and the null hypothesis was EXACTLY 20%, I came up with that not
    being the case. Nonetheless, you get a decent amount of candies and get to enjoy the taste of
    Skittles.

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