Reese’s Pieces candies have three colors: orange, brown, and yellow. The color distribution of Reese's Pieces is 50% orange, 25% brown, and 25% yellow. If each student in the class takes a sample of 25 Reese’s Pieces, would you expect every student to have the same number of orange candies in their sample? Explain.
https://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/2021/oneprop/OneProp.htm?candy=1 , which is a simulation for selecting Reese’s Pieces from a population.You should see that the proportion of orange Reese’s pieces is already set to 0.5, which is the population parameter. Change to “Proportion of orange” and check the Summary Stats box. Click on the “Draw Samples”in the Reese's Pieces applet.One sample of 25 candies will be taken and the proportion of orange candies for this sample is plotted on the graph. Record the sample proportion p. Repeat this again. Do you get the same or different values for each sample proportion? How close is each statistic p to the population parameter of p=0.5? What type of random sampling method did you use?Click the Reset button. Uncheck the “Animate” box. Change the number of samples to 100. Click on the “Draw Samples” button and look at the *sampling distribution. What is the value for the mean? Compare the mean of the 100 sample proportions to the population parameter of p=0.5. Is it close to the population parameter or not?

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