Natalie Garcia

Project part 4
Problem 1: Suppose you are going to randomly select two Skittles from the bag YOU purchased.
(a) What is the probability that both Skittles are purple if you select them with replacement? Give
your answer correct to four decimal places. (4 points)
.0127
(b) What is the probability that both Skittles are purple if you select them without replacement? Give
your answer correct to four decimal places. (4 points)
.0111
(c) What is the probability that at least one Skittle is purple if you select them with replacement? (4
points)
.2131
Problem 2: Suppose all of the Skittles in the class data set are combined into one large bowl and
you are going to randomly select one Skittle.
(a) What is the probability that you select a green Skittle? (4 points)
.1999
(b) What is the probability that you select a Skittle that is NOT green? (4 points)
.8000
(c) What is the probability that you select a Skittle that is red OR yellow? (4 points)
.4061
(d) What is the probability that you select a Skittle that is orange GIVEN that it is a secondary color
(secondary colors are green, orange and purple)? (4 points)
.5939

Problem 3: Suppose all of the Skittles in the class data set are combined into one large bowl and
you are going to randomly select ten Skittles with replacement and count how many are yellow.
(a) Show that this meets the requirements of the binomial probability distribution and identify n and
p. (5 points)
n represents 10 because it is the number of the independent trials. The p represents 4 because it is
the probability of success.
(b) What is the probability that exactly 4 of the 10 Skittles are yellow? (4 points)
.0886
(c) For samples of size 10, what is the expected value and standard deviation for the number of
yellow skittles that will be included? (4 points)
Expected value is 2.044 and the standard deviation is 1.275

Problem 4: For this problem, treat a 2.17 ounce bag of Skittles as an individual. Suppose the values
for our class data are the parameter values for all 2.17 ounce bags of Skittles. In other words,
assume = mean number of candies per bag in our class data set and = standard deviation of
number of candies per bag in our class data set (you computed these values in Part 2).
(a) Describe the sampling distribution for the mean number of candies per bag for samples of 32
bags. Include center, spread and shape. Note: The shape of the SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION is
different from the shape of the population, which you determined in Part 2 of the project. (5 points)
Center: 58.625
Spread: 3.589
Shape: Because the sample size is smaller (32) the shape is less normal and it looks more like a
skewed left.
(b) What is the probability that the mean number of candies per bag for a sample of 32 bags is
greater than 58.5? (4 points)
The probability of the mean number of candies greater than 58.5 is .8029.