4 each of green, orange, red, 2 yellow, 0 black.

We're up to 736 fruit pastilles now. I have to go out now, but I'll try and remember to put up the latest table when I get back. (Feel free to remind me if I forget!)

Hello Sarah

See above post of yours

I bought another packet in the interests of research, but scoffed it and forgot how many of which colours there had been. Just have to try again, I suppose

Will do it now, hang on...



The green average is creeping up gradually, but we'll have to wait and see whether it will ever get anywhere near 2.8.

I hope the makers of Fruit Pastilles are looking at this, noting how many people like green ones, and making more of them

Maybe that's why the average is gradually increasing.

Here you go Sarah : another tube to add to your list

4 green
4 red
3 orange
3 yellow
0 black

With those, black has fallen to 2.56, red has increased it's lead to 3.10, orange and yellow remain unchanged and green has crept up to 2.37.

Here's another for you Sarah : 4 orange, 3 green, 3 red, 3 black, 1 yellow

*wonders if there are more green ones in the south than the North. Barry seems to be getting more than I ever do. *

I think that's more recent luck on my part, until Sarah started her experiment, the green fruit pastille shortage was just as chronic down here.

I think next time you're down in the south, you should stock up on fruit pastilles!

Another packet GGOOORYYRORYBY 2G 4O 4Y 3R 1B

I've been doing a bit of number crunching. The 99.8% confidence intervals for the average numbers of different colours per tube are:

Black: 2.452 - 2.623
Red: 2.923 - 3.267
Orange: 2.894 - 3.117
Yellow: 2.764 - 3.210
Green: 2.229 - 2.521

So basically, there's a one-in-500 chance that the average for green is above 2.5.

For the mean to be 2.8, the Z value (normal distribution) would need to be 8.9, which is more than twice as big as any that I can find the tables. (The highest I can find is 3.99 and that corresponds to a one-in-nearly-17000 chance). When I calculated the value for 8.9 myself, it came out with something like a 1-in-1500000000000000000 chance.

I'm not 100% sure the last calculation was correct but, basically, it's pretty unlikely that green's average is anywhere near where it should be.

...and this won't help it either...

2 green, 2 orange, 2 red, 1 black and 7 yellow....

lol that's an awful lot of yellows!

This is the table as of Barry's last post:

I've just read this thread- totally agree on the lack of greens!
I also wondered how you had all of this free time.....

Opened another tube : 4 red, 4 yellow, 3 green, 3 yellow, 0 black.

It's called a 3-month break before uni starts. Although, it really hasn't taken that much time to type a few numbers into a spreadsheet.



Erm, you appear to have two sets of yellow there.

Sorry... should be 3 orange...

This one bought todays a bit unusual:-

BYBRBGGRGRRORB

Thats 5R, 4B, 3G, 1Y, 1O

A excellent one for me personally as Y and O are my least favourites.

Two more packets:

1. 2xY 3xO 3xG 3xR 3xB (quite an even packet)

2. 2xO 3xG 6xB 1xY 2xR

Another 2 packets...(my first contribution to this experiment)

1. 3xG 2xR 3xB 3xO 3xY

1. 1xG 1xR 8xB 1xO 3xY

8 blacks in one packet!