Name: _______________________ Period: _____ Date: ___________
Math 6
Skittles Math Lab
1. Estimate the number of Skittles in your package: _________
2. Which color do you think your package contains the most of? _________ the least of? _________
3. Open up your Skittles package on a clean sheet of white paper and record the total: _________
4. Fill in the table below. AFTER you fill in the table, you may start eating your Skittles.
Color
Amount
Fraction
Reduced
Fraction
Decimal
Percent
(%)
Degrees
in Circle
Example
8
8
24
1
3
0.33
33%
119º
Total = 1
whole
Total =
1.00
Total =
100%
Total =
360
Red
Yellow
Orange
Green
Purple
To figure out the decimal, take the numerator of the reduced fraction and divide it by the
denominator. Round your answer to the hundredths place.
To figure out the percent, move the decimal point two places to the right.
To figure out the degrees in circle, take the decimal and multiply it by 360. Round your answer to
a whole number.
5. On white paper, draw a circle graph representing the last column above. (I will show you how.)
Questions:
1. If there were a huge bag of 1,000 Skittles, how many of them would be red? How many would
be yellow?
2. If there were a bag of 75 Skittles, now many of them would be green? How many would be
purple?
3. What is the probability of getting a red or green Skittles from your bag?
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
–Albert Einstein