Orange M&M;\'s: The M&M;\'s web site says that 20% of milk chocolate M&M;\'s are

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Orange M&M;'s: The M&M;'s web site says that 20% of milk chocolate M&M;'s are orange. Let's assume this is true and use a simulation to create 200 random samples of 55 milk chocolate M&M;'s. The number of orange M&M;'s in each sample was counted. Here is a dotplot of the results: Which best explains the variability we see in the proportion of orange M&M;'s in the bags? poor quality control in the production process human error in calculating the proportion of orange M&M;'s in a packet an error in the simulation the random selection of samples

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Since we see that there is a variability in the proportion of orange MMs , this is because we are picking up the M&Ms randomly without following any logic. Thus, the answer is d

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