1. Wednesday, September 3 rd, 2014

2.  Is it possible to predict which color will be most popular in a bag of M&M’s?  Are the colors evenly distributed?  If not, which one is most popular?  How can we find out?  List appropriate methods for data collection to answer these questions.

3.  Open a bag of M&M’s  Count the number of M&M’s falling into each color category  Record the numeric results  Record the percentages  Record your color distribution on your individual dotplot  Record your color distribution on the class dotplot

4. BLUEBROWNGREENREDORANGEYELLOWTOTAL: Count Percentage Do you think that everyone’s M&M color distribution will be the same as mine?

6.  Compare your dotplot to the class dotplot  Are there any similarities? Differences?  Are there any extremes? Going back to our original questions…  Is it possible to predict which color will be most popular in a bag of M&M’s?  Are the colors evenly distributed?  If not, which one is most popular?  How can we find out?

7.  What type of data do you think we dealt with today… categorical or quantitative? What is your reasoning?  What are other displays/graphs that you are familiar with? (List a few..)