A candy company claims that 17% of the jelly beans in its spring mix are pink. Suppose that the 5) candies are packaged at random in bags containing about 400 jelly beans. A class of students opens several bags, counts the various colors of jelly beans, and calculates the proportion that are pink. In one bag, the students found 14% of the jelly beans were pink. Is this an unusually yna}l proportion of pink jelly beans? Explain your response,

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Matthias Hancock

19 November, 23:57

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Oneal · Answer 1

This is not an unusual result.

Explanation:

This is not an unusual result because it is only 1.60 standard deviations below the mean.