Question: Did you ever purchase a bag of M&??s candies and wonder about the distribution of colors? Did you know in the beginning they were all

Did you ever purchase a bag of M&??s candies and wonder about the distribution of colors? Did you know in the beginning they were all brown? Now, peanut M&M’s are 12% brown, 15% yellow, 12% red, 23% blue, 23% orange, and 15% green. The author purchased a 19.20-ounce bag at the nearby Walmart. There were 192 candies in the bag with the following breakdown by color.


Color Red Brown Green Yellow Orange Cyan Blue Total Observed 9 26


Is it reasonable to conclude that the actual distribution agrees with the expected distribution? Use the .05 significance level.

Color Red Brown Green Yellow Orange Cyan Blue Total Observed 9 26 44 41 40 32 192

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