Concept explainers
The table below contains the 10 most popular candy bars in United States in 2013 with the primary ingredients listed.
Favorite Candies | Chocolate (C) |
Nuts/Peanut Butter (N) |
Caramel (R) |
Snickers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Toblerone | Yes | No | No |
Cadbury Chocolate Bars | Yes | No | No |
Hershey | Yes | No | No |
Butterfinger | Yes | Yes | No |
Baby Ruth | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mars Bar | Yes | No | Yes |
Milky Way | Yes | No | Yes |
3 Musketeers | Yes | No | No |
Kitkat | Yes | No | No |
a. Draw a Venn diagram sorting the brands according to the three listed ingredients with the universal set (U) being the set of candy bars.
b. How many candy bars are in each of the following sets? What bars are in each set?
i.
ii.
iii. Of the bars listed, what is the most popular of the listed ingredients? The most unpopular?
iv. If you were a manufacturer of candy bars and using only this list, write an argument for which ingredients your new candy bar would contain.
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