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In Reply to: RE: Pop Quiz posted by geoffkait on May 02, 2011 at 17:37:49
Being different colors, they are coming out of two separate dispensers at the factory. The two colors probably end up in a common dispenser for packaging, but if that dispenser is not mixing prior to dispense, you would end up with clusters of each color in a box. Shipping/handling could generate some extra distribution within the box, depending on how full (tightly or loosely packed) the box is. So the answer lies within the manufacturing process and how much attention they pay to equal distribution of each color within each box, and how freely the candies are able to move around within the box.
And no, it has nothing to do with the universe. It's just candy-coated licorice.
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Crikey, geoffie.
Get thee to a Learning Annex and take a stats class.
You have shown nothing.
Maybe you should start a thread about how Mike and Ike discriminate against pink candy and how it is mprhically underrepresented in the Mike and Ike pantheon.
Do you even check stuff out or do you just take marching orderes via a fax, or something?
Think, geoffie, THINK!
No clustering in your picture.
Do the math.
Damn.
How are those cold showers working out for you? Not too good.
You zealots are so lazy.
I bet you checked out nothing of what you have been told to believe.
Did they have math at that online fake university you say you attended, rocketman?
As I already explained to Mr. Know-it-All, your explanation can't be right, since you can remove the Good and Plenties from the box, shake them up so they are randomly distributed, then place them back in the box so they will be randomly distributed *in the box.* Then, spill the Good and Plenties into the bowl - Voila! the Good and Plenties will form pink and white clusters. So, the explanation cannot be that the clusters are already formed in the box, at the factory. Furthermore, even if they were, the physics of spilling the Good and Plenties out into the bowl - they bounce around a lot upon impact - should overcome any clustering that might exist in the box. The Good and Plenties should be poured out slowly from the box with the box about 3 inches above the bowl.It's almost as if the pink ones are "magnetically attracted" to other pink ones but not to the white ones. But magnetism is not the right answer either. If it were magnetism, *clustering* would not occur, instead there would tend to be only two groups - a pink group and a white group, not clusters.
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I did not read the entire thread. Just offering some insight as the kids and I enjoy watching "Good Eats" on the Food Network, where they go behind the scenes and show how foods are made.
As far as an attractive force playing a part, how about pouring them onto a flat plate with enough surface area to accommodate a single layer of candies? Or, pouring them from one bowl to another several times, adding to the mixing? Also, are they forming clusters IN the bowl, or are they forming clusters in the box and remaining so as they exit the box? Slo-mo replay, please! And with all that being said, you would have to determine what constitutes a cluster before conducting experiments.
A really cool experiment would be to fill an ultrasonic jewelry bath with candies, let it run for several minutes, then see how they end up.
Pouring into a plate is OK, but the bowl will "contain the bouncing around better than a plate. You can pour the Good and Plenties back into back into box, shake them up and and pour again out into the plate or bowl.
The "clustering" into bunches might not be perfect because the (standard) physical forces of the Good and Plenties jumping around interferes with the other (mysterious) force that causes the Good and Plenties to cluster in bunches (see photo in my OP). Thus, the clustering might not be absolutely perfect every time. Amaze your friends.
Mike and Ikes is even more interesting than Good and Plenty in the sense that the various colors form bunches AND patterns.
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