CLV: The Cleveland plant uses the following proportion of colors for plain M&M's: Red=0.131, Orange=0.205, Yellow=0.135, Green=0.198, Blue=0.207, and Brown=0.124. HKP: The Hackettstown, NJ, plant uses the following proportion of colors for plain M&M's: Red=0.125, Orange=0.25, Yellow=0.125, Green=0.125, Blue=0.25, and Brown=0.125. Suppose I gave you a bag of M&M’s, but I didn’t let you see the original packaging so you can’t determine which plant made the M& M’s. Your job is to count the number of candies of each color in your bag and figure out which plant made your bag. What test should you do to determine this (you might have to do this test twice to see what the best match would be). What test should you use and why?
I’ll bet you didn’t know this, but plain (and peanut) M&M's are now produced at two different factories in the US, and the factories do not use the same mixture of colors! If you look on the packaging for the manufacturing code, which is usually stamped inside a rectangle you can determine which plant made that particular bag of M&M candies. In the middle of the code will be the letters HKP or CLV. For example, the code might read 632GCLV20.
- CLV: The Cleveland plant uses the following proportion of colors for plain M&M's:
Red=0.131, Orange=0.205, Yellow=0.135, Green=0.198, Blue=0.207, and Brown=0.124. - HKP: The Hackettstown, NJ, plant uses the following proportion of colors for plain M&M's: Red=0.125, Orange=0.25, Yellow=0.125, Green=0.125, Blue=0.25, and Brown=0.125.
Suppose I gave you a bag of M&M’s, but I didn’t let you see the original packaging so you can’t determine which plant made the M& M’s. Your job is to count the number of candies of each color in your bag and figure out which plant made your bag. What test should you do to determine this (you might have to do this test twice to see what the best match would be).
What test should you use and why?
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