Ended BYC's 2021 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along—Trick or Treat & Count These Things that are Good to Eat—How Many M & M's?

[Kiki]

I have a question...can we have certification that Muddy counted correctly?

Forget Muddy's counting somebody please explain to me what Em just said.

 

[Fuchsia]

311

309?

 

[MGG]

Also...how many bags of M&Ms were used?

 

[Kiki]

Between 5 and 6 inches

I won.

 

[MGG]

Forget Muddy's counting somebody please explain to me what Em just said.

It's not gonna be me.

 

[Little Baby Bean]

467

 

[Fuchsia]

It's not gonna be me.

It won’t be me either. I’m lost.

 

[MGG]

Them I used the formula 2πr^3/3 and found the estimated volume of the bowl to be 858.9 or rounded to 859cm^3

Forget Muddy's counting somebody please explain to me what Em just said.

I believe that means 2(3.14) times the radius, and then idk what that other gibberish is.

 

[Kiki]

330

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Whoa whoa whoa super nerd. Dumb it down for us non-mathers.

My estimated volume of the bowl is 859cm^3....

The problem comes when trying to calculate the volume of a peanut butter M&M, due to their non-uniform shape. The rough diameter is 1.65, and then I used the sphere formula to get a rough estimate of the volume, but they aren't spheres, so that just wasn't accurate.