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  • Level: GCSE
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    Money Management - Buying a Car.

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    Introduction

    Jaimes Charles

    Citizenship

    Coursework

    Money Management

    Buying a Car

    Section A.

    F

    or my first piece of coursework in ‘Money management’ I have been given the task of buying an expensive item.  To help me decide which item would be the best for me, I brainstormed with other pupils a list of suitable items and here are the results.

    • Holiday
    • House
    • House extension/renovations
    • Car
    • Boat
    • Caravan
    • House abroad (holiday home)
    • Landscape garden

    I have chosen a car as my item because as I am I my final year of school, I would like to learn how to drive and eventually buy a car.  So this piece of coursework will act as good background information for when that time comes.

    The list below shows some of the things I will consider when going to buy a car.

    • Age of the car
    • Car type (model)
    • Price
    • Tax
    • Insurance
    • How to pay
    • Petrol or diesel
    • Used or brand new
    • Manual or automatic

    Section B – Methods of enquiry.

    Method 1

    The most popular car on the road.

    1. To find out what the most popular car is I will give out a questionnaire and make a tally sheet.  The most frequent car that appears in my survey will be the one I will tally from the most popular to the most unpopular.  The reason I will be doing this is to find out what the general public is thinking.

    Prices of the most popular car brought in a car showroom.

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    Middle

    I have decided to look at loans because when I have compared the interest rates they are really expensive.  I will look at a loan from a bank and a loan from the supermarket and compare the interest rates.

    PREDICTION

    I think that a loan from a supermarket would be cheaper than a loan from a bank because looking at the interest rates on the leaflets they are much lower than the rates of the bank.

    From the list below I am going to look at THE MODEL OF A CAR and the PRICE of a car.  I am putting these two topics together because the price of a car will depend on what model it is.

    MODEL

    To find out what model of car I should buy I could send out a survey to the general public and find out the most popular car on the road at the moment.

    PRICE

    To find out the price of the car I could visit a showroom and ask thm for a price list.  This might differ from showroom to showroom and I want to get the best affordable price.  I made up another brainstorm of factors that might affect the price of a car.  Here they are.

    • New or second hand
    • Petrol or diesel
    • Location showroom in the city or private dealer

    I have decided to look at the price of a second hand car because I cannot afford a brand new one.

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    Conclusion

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    1. What most appeals to you? -    manual       automatic
    1. What is your current state of employment? -   full-time     part-time                  student

    Thank you for completing this questionnaire.

    COLLECTED DATA

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    I decided to write up a tally chart to show the most popular car in my area.  I did this over a three-hour period on three weekday evenings at 5.30 and these are the results that I got.

    TYPE OF CAR

    FREQUENCY

    TOTAL

    PEUGEOT

    I

    1

    PORSCHE

    IIII  IIII

    10

    VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE (NEW MODEL)

    IIII  IIII  IIII  IIII  IIII IIII IIII  IIII

    40

    LEXUS

    IIII

    5

    BMW

    IIII

    5

    MERCEDES

    IIII  IIII  IIII

    15

    SMART CARS

    IIII

    4

    FERRARI

    IIII  IIII

    9

    JAGUAR

    IIII  II

    7

    FORD KA

    IIII

    4

    My tally shows that my most popular car is Volkswagen Beetle (the new model) and my least popular car is the Ford Ka.  I have shown this information on the previous page.

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