Stats experiment

[eve11]

How many M&Ms are in this bowl? Tell me your answer in the comments (without looking at others' first).

(Full disclosure, I don't know the answer, it's a contest for a "fun event" at work and I figured I'd try crowdsourcing as my strategy)

Comments

[giallarhorn]

Hmm, I'd say about 45-60? I can see about 9 in a half circle, and there's about three rows so that's 27 per row, but they're not super compact and there's ones on top, so...yeah, ballpark about 50, give or take?

[eve11]

Thing is, I can count 50+ just visible so I'd guess it is higher than that.

[giallarhorn]

Ohh, true- that'd only get your the outermost circle, but there's stuff you can fill in the circle...hm. I guess if you approximate the radius of the circle at about 5-7, then it'd just be 90-130?