Sunday, August 21, 2011

M&M Lab Results - What do you think? Are Color and Type of Candy Independent?




15 comments:

  1. They are both independent, the type of candy does not influence the number of each color, in the packet. The color count is vety similar, in the types of candy.

    VAleria Jacome
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  2. Color and type of candy are independent. In different packs there maybe a different count of colors. It may just so happen that the packs we had had these colors. It may vary.

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  3. Color and type of M&M is independent. The color varies in every plain and peanut M&M package. Based on the data we took in class

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  4. From the data that the class collected, it appears that color and M&M type are not related. Most of the colors have an equal amount in both the peanut and plain M&M packages. For example, plain M&M's were composed of 25.29% blue and peanut M&M's had 23.11% blue. Yes, plain M&M's had more orange whereas peanut M&M's had more green. However, I don't think the difference in percents is enough to say that M&M type and color are dependent upon each other.

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  5. The data from class would suggest that color and M&M type are not related. While there are a few distinctions (orange, green, and yellow) there is not a big enough difference to be conclusive evidence of a direct relationship between the two.

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  6. From the data collected above, it shows that M&M type and color are not related. Most of the colors are in equal amount like blue, red, and brown. Although some colors doesn't have the same or almost equal amount, it appears that the data doesn't have a definite answer whether color and type relates to each other.

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  7. The color and type of candy appear to be independent; based on the data collected, the percent of each color M&M in both types of M&Ms are very close. Percentages, not individual counts, must be compared because the number of peanut M&Ms per bag is much less than that of a bag of plain M&Ms.

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  8. This data shows that color and the type of M&M are independent. While there are a couple exceptions, most of the percentages of colors in both bags are the same. We may need more data to find a more conclusive answer.

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  9. They are independent. The color and type of m&m have no influence over each other. All the colors have only slight difference so you can't really make a statement.

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  10. According to the data collected in the chart above, the type of m&ms and the certain type that they are are completely independent. There is not major difference in colors or type that it is.

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  11. The color and type are independent. There are slight differences but they are too small. Therefore, the colors and type are independent.

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  12. Based on this data, color and type are independent. With the exception of orange and green, all the other colors and very similar percentages. Just because plain had more orange and peanut had more green is not enough to say that color and type are dependent.

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  13. Many of you have posted that you think that color and type are independent. How different would you think the two stacked bar charts would need to look for you to say there is an association between color and type of candy?

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  14. Based on the data the color and type are not independent .

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  15. Based on the data above, the color and type of M&M's are independent of one another. Although there were more orange plain M&M's and more green peanut M&M's, there isn't enough data to say that color and type are dependent.

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