Your task in this assignment is to decide whether owning a vehicle is worth the monthly costs.  Follow the steps below to justify your decision:   Choose a vehicle that you would be interested in purchasing.  It can be a used vehicle or a new vehicle. Provide a description of the vehicle and the purchase price. Determine the monthly payment in order to buy the vehicle.  You may want to use one of the payment calculators used in a previous lesson. Estimate how much you will spend on maintenance and repairs per month on the vehicle.  Justify your estimates based on information given in the learning experience or perhaps information you have obtained from another source. Estimate your monthly gasoline cost and justify your estimate using the fuel economy of your chosen vehicle and the calculations provided in the learning experience. How much it would cost to purchase a monthly bus pass. Determine how much you would save by travelling by public transportation rather than using your own vehicle.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012
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ISBN:9780547587776
Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL
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Your task in this assignment is to decide whether owning a vehicle is worth the monthly costs.  Follow the steps below to justify your decision:

 

  • Choose a vehicle that you would be interested in purchasing.  It can be a used vehicle or a new vehicle.
  • Provide a description of the vehicle and the purchase price.
  • Determine the monthly payment in order to buy the vehicle.  You may want to use one of the payment calculators used in a previous lesson.
  • Estimate how much you will spend on maintenance and repairs per month on the vehicle.  Justify your estimates based on information given in the learning experience or perhaps information you have obtained from another source.
  • Estimate your monthly gasoline cost and justify your estimate using the fuel economy of your chosen vehicle and the calculations provided in the learning experience.
  • How much it would cost to purchase a monthly bus pass. Determine how much you would save by travelling by public transportation rather than using your own vehicle.
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