Question

Mike and Ike’s are a popular oblong fruit-flavored chewy candies that come in several flavors, cherry, orange, lime, lemon, and strawberry. Recently, Mike and Ike have been receiving customer complaints that the candy packages have many more orange and lime-flavored candies, which are their least favorite. The company believes these claims are false and seeks to show customers that the average number of candies per package are equal amongst the different flavors. The data collected by the company is found in the excel file MikeIke .Run the appropriate tests and place the screen shot of your MiniTab or excel output below.

Run all tests at the 5% significance level

When running a chi square test for association, you MUST check off “each cell’s contribution to Chi-Square” in MiniTab (this is found by selecting “statistics” when in the test dialog box). If using Excel you must complete these by hand within excel. When running a one-way or two-way ANOVA test, also perform a Fisher’s LSD comparison test for any significant factors, at the 5% significance level.

Cherry Orange Lime Lemon Strawberry

14 8 38 37 8

12 6 14 22 12

14 17 11 29 20

0 12 34 36 18

16 12 16 13 17

8 18 14 34 7

4 17 35 9 15

3 8 19 3 6

15 18 35 25 16

1 18 18 30 12

22 12 37 34 19

16 20 23 25 16

14 11 25 0 10

16 16 11 1 17

13 9 32 0 11

5 19 20 34 8

4 19 15 34 11

14 8 31 19 10

Answer 1

To be statistically equal, zero within the confidence interval range. There is a significant difference between Lime-Cherry, Lemon-Cherry, Lime-Orange, Lemon-Orange, Strawberry-Lime and Strawberry-Lemon.