Happy Pi Day!!!

I almost forgot!!!

Happy π Day everyone!!!!

I would post a bunch of lame π jokes, but I'll spare everyone!

The Jelly Bean Proportion...

So its nearing Easter time and time for fun colorful easter candy at my desk. My favorite candy to get is Brach's Spiced Jelly Bird Eggs. Really I like these for one reason: the purple clove-flavored Jelly Beans - they're awesome! Sadly it seems everytime I get a bag there seems to be only about 5 purple - very dissapointing. So today - during an hour break, I decided to investigate this with the two unopened bags of Jelly Beans in my drawer. With the help of one of my coworks I sorted and counted the JellyBeans. With some help from Excel, the findings were:

Bag 1 Bag 2

Freq Rel Freq Freq Rel Freq

Black 24 13.48% 34 18.99%

Green 25 14.04% 25 13.97%

White 36 20.22% 29 16.20%

Red 30 16.85% 29 16.20%

Purple 8 4.49% 7 3.91%

Pink 26 14.61% 24 13.41%

Orange 29 16.29% 31 17.32%

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I was right! The purple were way disproportionately low in proportion compared to the other colors. I'm considering writing to Branch's and complaining. Maybe I'll wait til I have a few more bags to add to my sample size first, and have my Statistics students run some z-test for me ^^. Perhaps I spend to much time during the day doing math ><

Silly things to do when bored at work...

So I'm sitting there with my student, gazing at my tissue box while she is working out a math problem. The box is left over from the holiday season, purchased by my boss at discount pricing. The box is shiny blue and features a showman scene in white fuzz which is glued to the surface. In the scene a child is holding a stick arm to the side of he snowman, presumably about to put the arm on. I mused to myself that it would be fun to think of the child and taking away the arm instead of putting it on.

With this in mind I turned to my student and said "Look, the child stoled the arm off the poor snowman!" My student takes a look and replies "Oh thats horrible!" Hehe, gullible student! And that gave me a greatly amusing idea, so i grabbed some lined paper and a thumb tack and got to work....

Before:

After (both sides):