STAT1122: A gumball machine located near David Jones at the Marion Shopping Centre in Adelaide contains 1568 gumballs: Biostatistics Assignment, FU, Australia

A gumball machine located near David Jones at the Marion Shopping Centre in Adelaide contains 1568 gumballs. It is filled monthly with America’s original Dubble Bubble Gumballs. Each gumball is approximately 2cm in diameter. The original gumballs have a solid color coating and come in 8 flavors; strawberry, pineapple, blueberry, lemon-lime, orange, cherry, banana, and grape. However, the machine also contains Berry Blast Speckled Dubble Bubble Gumballs (and as the name suggests have a speckled or mottled coating).

The colors/flavors/coatings in the machine in this particular week are strawberry (solid red coating), Blueberry (solid blue coating), banana (solid yellow coating), orange (solid orange coating), strawberry (speckled red coating), lemon (speckled yellow coating) and blueberry (speckled blue coating). Six hundred and ninety are speckled and 36.224% are yellow. Of the red ones, 198 have a solid color coating and 201 are speckled. There are 344 blue solid-coated gumballs. Only 3.316% are banana flavored.