Wonka Candy “Nutrition”

Facts

History 1950’s: Small, family-owned

company started in Chicago (Breaker Confections)

1965: Sunmark Companies purchased Breaker Confections

1980: The company was renamed “Willy Wonka Brands” after the famous book and film.

1993: The company was renamed, once again, to “Willy Wonka Candy Company”

Nestle currently owns Wonka Former products include:

mudsludge, dweebs, oompas, and punky’s

Candy:

SweeTarts: 12g

Shockers: 12g

Spree: 12g

Fun Dip: 13g

Runts: 13g

Nerds: 14g

Everlasting Gobstopper: 14g

Pixy Stix: 15g

Nerds Rope: 20g

Laffy Taffy: 27g

Wonka Candy Sugar

Amounts (grams)

MEAN : 15.2goTo find the mean I added the 10 numbers (to the left) together and divided them by the total sum of numbers. (10)MEDIAN: 13.5g

oTo find the median I placed all the numbers in order from smallest to largest and found the middle number. oSince there were 2 numbers in the middle, (13 and 14) I found the average of the two. MODE : 12g

oTo find the mode I found the most accruing number of the set of numbers. oI found that 12g shows up 3 times in the data. (SweeTarts, Shockers, and Spree)

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Wonka Candy Carbohydrates

(grams)

This stem-and-leaf plot shows the different carbohydrate amounts

per serving in 10 different Wonka candies. The majority of the candy have carbohydrate amounts in the tens rather than the twenties and

thirties.

Wonka Candy Sugar Amounts

(grams) This box-and-whisker plot

shows the different sugar amounts in the 10 different candies. It demonstrates that the majority of the data is in the lower numbers (10’s) rather than the higher.

The blue markings represent the minimum (12g), median (13.5g), and maximum (27g).

The pink vertical lines represent the lower and upper quartiles.

Lower quartile = 13g Upper quartile = 20.25g

This histograph shows the comparison of sugar amounts (grams) to calories for 10 different candies.

The graph shows that as the sugar amounts increase, the calories increase as well.

To make my graph, I found the average of calories in each candy for each section. ex: There are 7 different

candies between 10-15g. I researched their calories and found the average of all 7 numbers to get 59 calories.

Wonka Candy Sugar Amounts (grams) VS

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• This scatter plot shows the comparison from the 10 candies sugar amounts (grams) to their serving size (grams).

• This plot demonstrates that the majority of the data clumps between 10-20 x and 10-20 y.

Wonka Candy Sugar Amounts (grams) VS Serving Size (grams)

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