Mathematics department John Handley High School P.O. Box 910 Winchester, VA 22604 December 18, 1995 Consumer Affairs M&M Mars Company High Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840 Dear Sir or Madam: My Math Topics 2 class conducted an experiment with bags of M&M's containing the new blue color to determine the percent of each color used. Although we had read about the consumer polls which were conducted to select the new color, we did not realize that the old tan color of M&M's would be eliminated. Our results showed the following distribution Brown 26% Green 4% Orange 14% Red 22% Yellow 20% Blue 14% Would you please send us the actual formula which your company uses? Thank you. Sincerely, David H. Pleacher