Statement of the Problem:

We want to find out if the popularity percentages of red and green cars throughout the U.S. hold true for North Olmsted. My colleagues and I have a passion for cars, so we wanted our website to be somewhat related to cars. As we were talking about the Ford Mustang and how good it looks in red, we realized that there are a lot of red cars within North Olmsted. We also hypothesize, because all of our families own at least one green car, that green is a popular car color in North Olmsted. After a brief and heated argument about what we thought about the popularity of the different car colors, we decided to research the matter.

Abstract

     The objective of our study is to observe how popular red and green vehicles are in North Olmsted, as opposed to the overall popularity of these colors in the U.S. The method we devised in order to obtain our data was to have each person observe one of three parking lots over a period of several weeks. The parking lots at the locations of the Westbury, Victoria Plaza, and Marc's are sufficiently crowded to produce valid data. On the days of data collection, each team member would go to their assigned parking lot and count how many vehicles were present. Each red and green car would be tallied up, and the proportion of these colors over the rest would be noted. We have concluded that the proportion of red/green cars in the U.S. differs from the proportion of red and green cars in North Olmsted. There were some weaknesses in the study, and the results should not be extrapolated to other areas in the U.S. Potential weknesses include the limited age range of cars sampled, and that the number of cars in a specific parking lot was not consistent each day. For future studies, we suggest more diverse sampling and stratifying data based on categories such as the parking lots for places to eat, shopping centers etc.