How to shark a 'guess the number of M&Ms in a jar' contest...
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Are you aware this is a university course? For him to even be holding a fun contest like that is uncommon.
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lol, had once such a contest, they put in a brick in the middle that couldn't be seen.... To twart this kind of calculations and give more chance for random guess.
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nice shirt
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I won approximately 10,000 M&Ns doing this method. Was about 25 off I think. Thank You!!
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Do you know the packing factor of Peanut M&Ms
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That was AMAZING!!!
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When I was younger i entered a contest with Peanut M&M's in a jar. I figured that each piece was one unit so I counted the number of pieces in a column and the number of pieces in the diameter and did (pi*r)^2 * h where h = the results from the column. I won the contest and was off by 6 m&m's :)
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what happens if they have different types of m&m's like crunchy m&ms(very much spherical) and regular ones, could you figure out the amount if you knew the percentage of crunchy ones?
reubensugars 6 months ago
@reubensugars Should be able to.
micolich 6 months ago
(Volume of jar divided by volume of m&m) times packing fraction for all those who don't know where he got the number. (1150 / 0.715) x 0.665 = 1069.31608 or ~1070.
Thecommander248 7 months ago 2
@Thecommander248 Yep, that's right. Thanks. :)
micolich 7 months ago
Interesting, but if you are going by mass, doing it with a single MNMs is silly. But what about simply weighting 2-3 batches of 50 MNMs (which you sould be able to measure with reasonable accuracy on a standard scale) and using the average to establish the standard weight of a MNM? Besides, actually counting by hand a large number of small items can easily go wrong.
sylverdrag 10 months ago
@sylverdrag Not if you count it three times to be sure ;)
micolich 8 months ago 2