Confidence interval for the proportion of yellow


Mars Inc. claims that they produce M&Ms with the following distributions:

  Brown     30%     Red     20%     Yellow     20%  
  Orange     10%     Green     10%     Blue     10%  

A bag of M&Ms was randomly selected from the grocery store shelf, and the color counts were:

  Brown     23     Red     21     Yellow     20  
  Orange     16     Green     15     Blue     14  


Find the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of yellow M&Ms in that bag.

a) [0.111, 0.256]

b) [0.161, 0.166]

c) [0.031, 0.256]

d) [0.111, 0.056]

e) [0.011, 0.206]

f) None of the above

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