Which car should I buy?

Presidents Day is also about car sales.

Should you buy a hybrid car or an electric car to save money?  What about the environmental considerations?

Students create equations for finding the break-even points of these vehicles by mileage and years of ownership.  They then work with systems of equations to find the number of years or number of miles where the cost of these cars are the same.

2018 Honda Insight (Hybrid) MPG: Up to 55 city / 49 highway MSRP: From $23,725

2018 Honda Civic MPG: Up to 32 city / 42 highway MSRP: From $18,940

2018 Nissan Leaf MSRPFrom $29,990 40 kWh lithium-ion battery

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When-will-this-make-sense.pdf

CCSS: 6.SP, 6.RP, 7.RP, 7.SP, 8.SP, 8.EE.C, HSA, HSS.B, HSN

For members we have an editable Word docx, our Excel data with graphs, and solutions.

When-will-this-make-sense.docx   Insight-vs-Civic.xlsx   When-will-this-make-sense-solution.pdf