Jolly Ranchas This project was done by Mallory and Ashley =D

Why/Predictions

We wanted to study how much each specific flavor occurred in a

typical bag of jolly ranchers. We

picked this topic because jolly

ranchers are a delicious candy and we were curious to

see the results.

We thought that blue raspberry would be the flavor that occurred the most often because that was Mallory’s favorite flavor and Ashley’s 2nd.

Our Data Points!

We collected the data by buying a regular bag of jolly ranchers, seperating the

flavors, and then counting how many of each flavor there was. There was 120 data

points total because that is how many jolly’s our bag consisted of. The data is Univariate because there was only one

variable.

GROUP DATA CHART!

Class BoundaryFrequenc

yRelative

FrequencyDegre

e Cumulative Frequency

Cherry 41 0.34 122.4 41

Blue Raspberry 18 0.15 54 59

Apple 21 0.175 63 80

Watermelon 25 0.21 75.6 105

Grape 15 0.125 45 120

Totals: 120 1 120

Jolly Ranchers

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Flavors

Freq

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cy

Cherry

Blue Raspberry

Apple

Watermelon

Grape

Histogram

STEM & LEAF

1 58

2 15

3

4 1

Circle GraphFlavors of Jolly Ranchers

Cherry33%

Blue Raspberry15%

Apple18%

Watermelon21%

Grape13%

Cherry

Blue Raspberry

Apple

Watermelon

Grape

Dot Plot

Box Plot

Cheby Graph

24 34.2 44.4 54.613.8-6.4-16.6

15 18

21

25

41

Empirical Rule

Measure of Center

• No mode

• Mean= 24

• Median= 19.5

Measure of Dispersion

• Range= 26

• Standard Dev.= 10.2

• Outlier Analysis: Upper Fence= 57.75

• Lower Fence= -8.25

Z-Scores

• 15: -.88

• 18: -.59

• 21: -.29

• 25: .098

• 41: 1.66

Distribution Evidence

All our graphs proved that it was a normal

distribution. So did our measures of center, except we did not have a mode because

there was no specific amount of one flavor that occurred more than once in our bag.

Summary

There were not many factors that affected our data because we just used a random bag of jolly

ranchers. We did not have the theoretical for our data, but our results did not match our

preconceived idea about blue raspberry being the most common flavor. We were kind of shocked that we had such a high range,

because we thought all the jolly ranchers would be a bit more evenly distributed. However, we were still happy with our bag because grape

ranchers are gross and they occurred the least!

Bibliography• Digital image. Http://www.google.com/imgres?

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