GCSE Math’s Statistics Coursework Introduction: I have been given a database which contains information about one hundred different used cars
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GCSE Math's Statistics Coursework Introduction: I have been given a database which contains information about one hundred different used cars. We are investigating what is the most influential factor when buying a second hand car. The factors which I will be using are the age and mileage of the cars to see how they affect the price. Hypothesis: Cars which are older and have got more mileage are generally cheaper, but if I have a vintage (antique) car it will change my graph so it would skew my data as an outlier. Also some cars will depreciate quicker than others in their first year. Plan: Using the data which has been given to me I will compare age to mileage on a scatter graph with price. If I did the investigation by hand I would have chosen a sample of 100 cars of about 20 being picked at random using every 5th car...

