Jolly Ranchas This project was done by Mallory and Ashley =D
Jan 18, 2016
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
05
1015202530354045
Flavors
Freq
uen
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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