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So it just so happens that there is a formula to what color of M&M's we all get in one bag of candy. Our Professor actually sent an email to the the Mars company and got a response back telling her the exact percentages of color M&M's that go into each bag:
Blue 25%
Orange 25%
Green 12.5%
Yellow 12.5%
Red 12.5%
Brown 12.5%
Now compare that to our class totals let's see how close we came:
Blue 60/309 = 19%
Orange 55/309 = 18%
Green 62/309 = 20%
Yellow 33/309 = 11%
Red 48/309 = 16%
Brown 51/309 = 16%
So our total in class was off percentage wise just a few here and there but it allows you to see the comparison between the Companies proposed mix in bags to our actual mix. I never knew Mars had an actual set formula so this was an interesting fact to me and wanted to share it. I know I often wondered how the mix of colors came about. How about you?
Thanks for reading,
Terri
Hi Terri,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this class activity! I liked how you put the Mars data and our class data. I was able to see the visualization and compare. Maybe if you added how we found our class data of M&M's then it would be a more better comparison of M&M bags in our class.
-Natalia Macias