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Upon request, the Mars Company (the maker of M&M's) will provide the color distribution for their candies. As of August 2009, they noted that
"Our color blends were selected by conducting consumer preference tests, which indicate the assortment of colors that pleased the greatest number of people and created the most attractive overall effect.
On average, our mix of colors for M&M'S CHOCOLATE CANDIES is:
M&M'S MILK CHOCOLATE: 24% cyan blue, 20% orange, 16% green, 14% bright yellow, 13% red, 13% brown."
Data collected from a bag of Milk Chocolate M&M's are provided.

We want to determine if this sample provides evidence that the color distribution has changed since August 2009.
-Is a chi-square test appropriate in this situation?

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Use the following to answer the questions below:
Upon request, the Mars Company (the maker of M&M's) will provide the color distribution for their candies. As of August 2009, they noted that
"Our color blends were selected by conducting consumer preference tests, which indicate the assortment of colors that pleased the greatest number of people and created the most attractive overall effect.
On average, our mix of colors for M&M'S CHOCOLATE CANDIES is:
M&M'S MILK CHOCOLATE: 24% cyan blue, 20% orange, 16% green, 14% bright yellow, 13% red, 13% brown."
Data collected from a bag of Milk Chocolate M&M's are provided.
  
We want to determine if this sample provides evidence that the color distribution has changed since August 2009.
-Is a chi-square test appropriate in this situation?

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Yes, all expected counts are larger than 5.

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