Question

Given the following data, what is the frequency of red M&M's?
Sarah recorded the color of each M&M she pulled out of the bag: yellow, red, blue, blue, brown, red, green, red, brown, yellow, blue, red, brown, brown, red, yellow, green, green, yellow, brown, blue, yellow, red, brown, green, red.

Answer 1

Answer:

yellow M&M: 5

red M&M: 7

blue M&M: 4

brown M&M: 6

green M&M: 4

Answer 2

Given:

The given data for the color of M&Ms :

yellow, red, blue, blue, brown, red, green, red, brown, yellow, blue, red, brown, brown, red, yellow, green, green, yellow, brown, blue, yellow, red, brown, green, red.

To find:

The frequency of red M&M's

Solution:

The frequency of a particular color is the number of occurrences of that particular color.

From the given data we will record the number of occurrences of red color to find the frequency of red M&Ms

We can count manually how many times red color is mentioned in the given data and that will be the frequency of red M&Ms

Number of times red is mentioned in the given data = 7

Frequency of red M&Ms = 7