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To find out if the mileage that a car has run is related in any way to the percentage decrease in the price of the car from original price to secondhand price.  

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GCSE Math practice coursework The percentage decrease in price and mileage Aim To find out if the mileage that a car has run is related in any way to the percentage decrease in the price of the car from original price to secondhand price. This would be worthwhile doing as the mileage directly affects the quality of the car and so, affects the price. I will do a pretest (graph of everything) to ensure that the investigation is worth doing, just to see if there is an overall correlation. Method I will pick out the data I need for this project and take samples. Here I will need the statistics of mileage and both prices then use the spread sheet to work out the price decrease percentage. I will test them for any relation they may have and draw scatter diagrams. The scatter diagrams would have lines of best fit. A cumulative frequency table may also be useful in...

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