Put 10 M&M’s® candies of any color into a zip lock bag. Each group is starting with 10 M&M’s® candies, which is recorded as Trial 0 in the data table. All of the M&M’s® candies are considered to be radioactive at the beginning.
Shake the bag and spill out the candies onto a flat surface.
Pick up ONLY the candies with the “m” showing – these are still radioactive. Count the “m” candies as you return them to the bag.
Record the number of candies you returned to the bag under the next Trial.
Move the candies that are blank on the top to the side – these have now decayed to a stable state.
Repeat steps 2 through 5 until all the candies have decayed or until you have completed Trial 7.
Record the results for 9 other groups and total all the Trials for the 100 candies.