Sampling Error - M&Ms
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Color Sample M & M Count Website Count (%) Sampling Error +/-
Blue 23.2% 24% .8%
Red 10.7% 13% 2.3%
Yellow 12.5% 14% 1.5%
Orange 17.9% 20% 2.1%
Green 17.9% 16% -1.9%
Brown 17.9% 13% -4.9%
I inadvertently switched the sample % with the Website % so the figures may be all wrong. I am so sorry for all you trouble. Would you mind doing this again.
Then What I really needed to be sure of was which solution is correct. I am tempted to submit all the calculations but this professor is a bit tempermental so I would be better to submit what he wants which i thought was sampling error as I have but then I found this formula which is error term. Do you know what this means?
The sampling error +/- would just be changed from negative to a positive and vice versa. But th other solutions would be incorrect. I tried to put cursor over the solution ad nothing came up.
z(a/2) for a 95% CI Error Term for Website Count Error Term for M&M Count
1.9600 0.1096 0.1109
1.9600 0.0802 0.0873
1.9600 0.0859 0.0901
1.9600 0.0995 0.1038
1.9600 0.0995 0.0952
1.9600 0.0995 0.0873
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The solution examines sampling errors for M&M colors.
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