give each student a bag of chocolate m&ms. divide the students into groups of 5 or 6. calculate the relative frequency distribution for color of m&ms for each group.

Question

(a) what is your estimated probability of randomly picking a yellow? a red? (b) redo the calculations for the whole classroom. did the estimates change? (c) do you believe there is an equal number of each color in a process batch? discuss

Answer 1

To solve this, you need to do the following.

Count the number of each color of M&Ms.

How many red? blue? orange? yellow? green? black?

I may not be right about the colors.

Make a table

Color frequency = # M&Ms

relative frequency = #yellow M&Ms / total number of M&Ms or

relative frequency = #red M&Ms / total number of M&Ms

The relative frequency is also the probability of picking each color

This will be done for your group and for the class as a whole.

Do things differ by group and for the class as a whole?