How many yellow m&m''s & how many blue m&m's are in a regular bag of m&m's?

Question

I need this as soon as possible this is for my AP Statistics class project. And I need some data to conduct my experiment.

if anyone has a bag of m&m's laying around please count the number of blue m&m's and the number of yellow m&m's in the bag?

Answer 1

This is a pretty ambiguous question, because there really isn't enough info, however, I can tell you what you need to do to work it out.

1. first of all you need to either ESTIMATE how much 1 m&m weighs, and then work out how much a whole bag weighs (If you buy a bag you'll be able to weigh one yourself)

2. Say you work out that there are 200 m&m's in the packet. You have to count up how many different colours there are, lets say, brown,blue,red,yellow,green. You have to assume they are equally distributed (that is, there is a machine that pumps these things out in equal numbers)

3. So for this example there are 200 M&Ms and 5 possible colours. So we assume there are 200 divided by 5 = 40 of each colour

And thats it... but you'll need to numbers of M&Ms in one bag and also how many colours there are...

So go and buy some :) What are you waiting for!!

Answer 2

If I were you, I would buy a million bags and then count the M&Ms. That would give a very stable statistical result, plus a delicious reward at the end for all your hard work!

Answer 3

They randomly spread out the colors of the M&Ms into the bags. There is NO WAY to calculate how many are in each bag.

Answer 4

WHY NOT GO TO THE STORE AND BUY SAY THREE BAGS ? IF THE NUMBER IS THE SAME , GOOD FOR YOU. IF IT'S NOT , YOU'LL HAVE TO BUY MORE OR CALL THE COMPANY OR APPROXIMATE THE RESULT.