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Candy Cane Cookies
These festive cookies have a rich almond flavor and a pretty sprinkling of peppermint. Their candy cane shape makes them especially appealing it wouldn't be Christmas at my house without them!

36 Servings

Prep: 25 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup confectioners' sugar 1 egg 1-1/2 teaspoons almond extract 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt Red food coloring 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy canes 1/2 cup sugar Directions In a small bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extract. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough in half; add 6-7 drops of food coloring to one half. Shape tablespoonfuls of each color of dough into 4-in. ropes. Place ropes side by side; lightly press ends together and twist. Place on ungreased baking sheets; curve to form canes. Bake at 375 for 9-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Combine crushed candy canes and sugar; immediately sprinkle over cookies. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Yield: 3 dozen. Nutrition Facts: 1 cookie equals 108 calories,

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Nutrition Facts: 5 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 19 mg cholesterol, 104 mg sodium, 14 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1 fat.

Lesson 127

Example 1
Classify a Data Distribution Determine whether the data {112, 106, 106, 110, 107, 107, 112, 109, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 106, 107, 108, 106, 106, 111, 109, 110, 108, 110, 106, 106, 107, 106, 108, 106, 107, 107, 110, 107, 108, 107, 108, 109, 108, 109, 109 } appear to be positively skewed, negatively skewed, or normally distributed. Make a frequency table for the data. Then use the table to make a histogram. Value Frequency 112 2
Since the histogram is high at the left, and has a tail to the right, the data are positively skewed.

Example 2

Normal Distribution BUSINESS A homebased business found that the lengths of 5500 of their special candy canes for the holidays are normally distributed with a mean length of 20 centimeters and a standard deviation of 0.5 centimeters. a. About how many of the candy canes were between 19.5 and 20.5 centimeters in length? Draw a normal curve. Label the mean and the mean plus or minus multiples of the standard deviation. The values of 19.5 and 20.5 are 1 standard deviation below and above the mean, respectively. Therefore, about 68% of the data are between 19.5 and 20.5. 5500 x 68% = 3740 Multiply 5500 by 0.68. About 3740 of the candy canes are between 19.5 and 20.5 centimeters in length.
b. What is the probability that a candy cane selected at random had a length less than 19 cm? The value of 19 is two standard deviations below the mean. You know that about 100% 95% or 5% of the data are more than two standard deviations away from the mean. By the symmetry of the normal curve, half of 5%, or 2.5%, of the data are more than two standard deviations below the mean. The probability that a candy cane selected at random had a length less than 19 cm is about 2.5% or 0.025.