M&M Report Alex Colbert Strayer University Abstract Statistics is not an easy topic for your everyday person to pick up and make it easy for them to understand. Equations and hypothesis and the like can be overwhelming and confusing. But what about when you relate it to something that is common in everyday life? Throughout the semester we were given the task to evaluate M&Ms in a few different statistical ways. Throughout this report the goal is to be able to explain what happened‚ and offer
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(CM) | Radius (CM) | M&M Thickness (CM) | 1 | 75 | 11.34 | 5.67 | 0.722 | 2 | 83 | 12.68 | 6.34 | 0.658 | Table 2 - Direct Measurement | Trial | M&M Thickness (CM) | 1 | 0.642 | 2 | 0.741 | 3 | 0.683 | Table 3 - Calculated Averages | Method | Calculated Average Thickness (cm) | Indirect (from Table 1) | 0.700 | Direct (from Table 2) | 0.689 | Questions: 1. When you performed Step 2 of the procedure‚ you actually made a cylinder of M&Ms. The cylinder was
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Continental Drift Theory Announced By Basira Wakil January 16‚ 1915 Berlin‚ Germany – Alfred Wegener announced today that it will be merging with Miami-based crab shell superstore HermitHomes effective December 21‚ 2012. Company officials are expected to meet with Crab Construction Union officials later this month to discuss employee benefits and retirement packages. CrabTech officials expect this merger to improve investor confidence and widen its customer base. In addition to shells
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CONSTRUCTION OF THOUGHT OBJECTS BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: ALFRED SCHULTZ Alfred Schutz was influenced by Husserl’s phenomenology. He also criticizes Weber. He says that Weber simply assumes that actors share subjective meanings. Schutz asks‚ “Why and how do actors come to acquire common subjective states in a situation? How do they create a common view of the world? This problem of intersubjectivity is central to Schutz’s intellectual scheme. My presentation is on construction of thought objects
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Kinsey Program: Kinsey: Let’s Talk About Sex Date Watched: September 26‚ 2005 Kinsey is a movie that portrays the life and studies of Dr. Alfred Kinsey‚ a man who revolutionized the way Americans perceive sex and sexual activities. The movie starts out with Kinsey as a child‚ and shows how he was brought up as a Christian‚ his overbearing father was a pastor‚ and was also very strict. He had always been taught that masturbation was a sin‚ but he did it anyway. His father had decided
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Mini Lab Report M&M Lab Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to find‚ record‚ and compare the amount of each color of M&M’s in a bag. Hypothesis: I predict that the M&M color that will have the largest amount will be the yellow M&M’s. After yellow I predicted the next highest color would be brown. Then following brown would be blue‚ green‚ red‚ and orange. Materials: * Plate/Paper Towel * Bag of M&M’s * Calculator * Pencil and Table to Record
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Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms‚ I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end‚ I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger‚ I apply pressure‚ squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser‚” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that‚ in general‚ the brown and red M&Ms are tougher‚ and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior
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Kara Duenas January 27‚ 2013 2nd period A.P. Psychology Mrs. Gatewood Alfred Kinsey was born in New Jersey on June 23‚ 1894 to Alfred Kinsey and Sarah Charles. As a young boy he suffered many illnesses such as rheumatic fever and typhoid. In high school‚ he began his interest in biology and botanical studies with the influence of his teacher. He started his career in biology as a zoologist and entomologist but later found interest in sexology. His parents were very religious therefore not
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MAT 300 M&Ms® Project Part 5 (3 pts) Using the methods in Section 8.4‚ test the hypothesis (α = 0.05) that the population proportions of red and brown are equal (pred = pbrown). You are testing if their proportions are equal to one another‚ NOT if they are equal to one another AND equal to 13%. NOTE: These are NOT independent samples‚ but we will use this approach anyway to practice the method. This also means that n1 and n2 will both be the total number of candies in all the bags. The
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M&M’s and the Scientific Method Objective: Introduce the scientific method including terminology Provide a fun activity for students to experience how the scientific method is used Description of activity Supplies: Three regular sized bags of M&M’s Three bags of peanut M&M’s Activity: 1. Get 1 bag of M&M’s. 2. Guess how many M&M’s are in your bag of M&M’s. Write it down. That is your hypothesis. (DO NOT OPEN BAG) 3. Open your bag of M&M’s
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