M&M Report

By Rachel F. 5C

Problem: Do all 1.69 oz. bags of m&m’s have the same number of each color candy?

Materials: 4 bags of 1.69 oz bags of M&M’s

Pencil

Paper

Procedure:

1) Open bag

2) Remove M&M’s

3) Sort by color

4) Count

5) Recount

6) Record data

Observations:

v There are almost even amounts.

v America’s favorite colors are represented.

v Mostly Brown.

v The color of the food maters. Would you want to eat blue food.

v More red than yellow.

v In bag one and three there are the same amount of reds.

v I know more people that like blue, but there are more greens.

Data Table:

Blue	7	6	4	8
Red	11	13	11	7
Yellow	6	6	9	9
Brown	15	14	17	21
Orange	9	5	2	6
Green	8	13	13	5
Total	56	57	56	56

Analysis and Conclusion: Three out of four bags of M&M’s had the same amount of candies, so most of the bags have the same amount of candies in a bag. This is probably because each bag has to weigh 1.69 ounces. Each candy should weigh about the same, so maybe bag 2 had an extra candy because it had not yet met it’s weight requirement. Each bag is about the same color wise. In each bag most of the candies are brown, red or green. My conclusion is, each bag has almost the same amount of M&M’s because they needs to meet a weight requirement. They do not care if they have the same number of each color.