Leilah Cordero 2-26-2012 Statistics Day Brian Jean Coke Analysis

ABSTRACT: In progress.

INTRODUCTION: I am doing a coke analysis based on the views of a consumer. Why am I doing this? Say you bought a 24 pack of Diet coke and there were a couple of cans that seemed less full, almost empty, or even completely empty. Would you want to buy this product again? I know this has personally happened to me before and probably to many others. One question that may be asked is are the producers of this product doing this on purpose to cheat us, or was this not intentional? By doing this study we can determine if we are being cheated or not. I will be weighing 15 randomly selected cans of Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and Coke Zero. I will have available graphs and the weights of my cans that were selected. I will be using TC Stats to help me pick my random cans and to draw the graphs. METHODS: The first step in this study is to use TC Stats which is available on my iPad from the school. Available to me were 85 cans of Diet Coke, 96 cans of Diet Pepsi, and 72 cans of Coke Zero. Each can of Diet Coke was numbered 1-85, each can of Diet Pepsi was numbered 1-96, and each can of Coke Zero was numbered 1-72. By using

TC Stats, I was able to put these numbered cans into the chart and then randomly select 15 numbers of each of these products. I started with one brand, picked my numbered cans that were randomly selected and weighed each one of them. After weighing each of the cans from the first product I would chart them next to the number it was associated with. I repeated these steps for the other two brands. I used a centigram weighing device that measured to the hundredths place. See chart below.

Chart 1. Coke Analysis

Diet Coke Weight in Grams/Diet Coke Coke Zero Weight in Grams/Coke Zero Diet Pepsi Weight in Grams/Diet Pepsi

74 68 70 75 73 19 45 64 44 9 3 58 63 83 1

373.77 371.09 375.34 374.99 372.09 371.77 374.85 367.92 373.68 373.19 371.13 371.65 375.33 375.35 370.81

64 40 46 1 10 43 67 62 23 27 15 36 35 26 63

368.46 370.87 373.21 371.71 369.94 373.6 370.38 372.57 370.04 372.25 369.32 374.06 374.53 374.44 373.38

32 49 37 90 47 81 85 50 88 82 33 29 69 80 38

367.75 368.7 370.53 368.9 370.67 369.5 369.74 370.29 370.34 368.89 370.57 368.61 366.5 366.75 369.51

BOX AND WHISKER PLOTS

RESULTS: Based on the information I collected I was able to determine that the average weight of the cans are not normally distributed. If you look at the Box and Whisker Plots diagrams above it shows that all three products are skewed to the right. The

average weights of these products are as follows: Diet Coke is 372.684, Coke Zero is 371.917, and Diet Pepsi is 369.150. The minimum and maximum weight of Diet Coke is 367.920 and 375.350, minimum and maximum weight of Coke Zero is 368.460 and 374.530, and the minimum and maximum weight of Diet Pepsi is 366.500 and 370.670. Based on these results it looks as if the cans are at the

required fill level. All of the cans were averaging around the same weight. If we take a look at the histograms below it shows that either I had an error of weighing the cans, or the cans may have been slightly under filled. Most of the cans were averaging a certain weight. I can say by the observation I took, that I was not

cheated with these cans of cola.

None of my cans were near empty or even

completely empty. They all were weighing approximately the same weight.