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## Proportions of colors in various M and M's varieties

### Description

A bag of the candy M and M's has many different colors. Each large production batch is blended to the ratios given in this data set. The batches are thoroughly mixed and then the individual packages are filled by weight using high-speed equipment, not by count.

### Usage

    data(mandms)

### Format

A data frame with 5 observations on the following 6 variables.

blue
  percentage of blue
brown
  percentage of brown
green
  percentage of green
orange
  percentage of orange
red
  percentage of red
yellow
  percentage of yellow

### Source

This data is attributed to an email sent by Masterfoods USA, A Mars, Incoporated Company. This email was archived at the Math Forum, http://www.mathforum.org.

### Examples

    data(mandms)
    bagfull = c(15,34,7,19,29,24)
    names(bagfull) = c("blue","brown","green","orange","red","yellow")
    prop = function(x) x/sum(x)
    chisq.test(bagfull,p = prop(mandms["milk chocolate",]))
    chisq.test(bagfull,p = prop(mandms["Peanut",]))

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