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		<title>Reece&#8217;s Math</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was enjoying some delicious Reece&#8217;s Pieces and noticed that while there were three colors (orange, yellow and brown) there seemed to be an awful lot of orange.  That got me thinking: exactly how many more orange are there? The nutrition facts lists the bag at 13 servings of approximately 50 pieces per serving, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I was enjoying some delicious Reece&#8217;s Pieces and noticed that while there were three colors (orange, yellow and brown) there seemed to be an awful lot of orange.  That got me thinking: exactly how many more orange are there?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.college-code.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/reeces.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-83" title="reeces pieces" src="http://www.college-code.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/reeces.png" alt="" width="500" height="365" /></a></p>
<p>The nutrition facts lists the bag at 13 servings of approximately 50 pieces per serving, which comes out to be 650 pieces total.  Yes I did actually sit down and count out each color, results below.  No I have no life.</p>
<p>Yellow &#8211; 140</p>
<p>Brown &#8211; 161</p>
<p>Orange &#8211; 368</p>
<p>Total &#8211; 669</p>
<p>Percentage wise that is:</p>
<p>Yellow &#8211; 20.9%</p>
<p>Brown &#8211; 24.0%</p>
<p>Orange &#8211; 55.0%</p>
<p>It looks like it is supposed to be a 1-1-2 ratio for yellow, brown orange.  Of course there is no way to be sure if that is the true ratio without a statistically meaningful sample size, but I am not going to count another bag.</p>
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