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- M&Ms currently come in seven colors: purple, orange, brown, green, blue, red, and yellow.
- Which color was the most recent addition? __________
- Guess which color occurs the most often. __________
- Guess which color occurs the least often. __________
- Guess how many M&Ms are in your package. __________
- Now open your pack of M%Ms (but do not eat any yet!).
- Make a line plot of the number of M&Ms of each color
in your pack on the axes below:
- Record the number for each color and the total M&Ms below:
- Purple _______________
- Brown _______________
- Green _______________
- Orange _______________
- Blue _______________
- Yellow _______________
- Red _______________
- Total _______________
- Is your total the same as your neighbor's? _______________
Why do you think that is? _______________
- Which color occurs the most often? _______________
- Which color occurs the least often? _______________
- Now do a line plot (or frequency distribution) to determine the
class totals for Total M&Ms, Number of Browns, Number of
Greens, and so forth.
- Now make a Box Plot (Box and Whiskers diagram) for the total
number of M&Ms in eack pack.
- Now record class totals, and determine the percentage that
each color comprises of all the packages sampled:
| Color
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Total
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%
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% (Mars Co.)
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| Purple
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| Brown
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| Green
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| Orange
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| Blue
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| Yellow
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| Red
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| Totals
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100%
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100%
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Click here to see the color distribution of M&Ms over the years.
Click on the following to read the actual letters to and from
the Mars Company about the color distribution:
Letter from Mars -- 1982
My Letter to Mars -- 1995
Letter from Mars -- 1996