Abstract

We began our study by looking at studies done by groups in years past. We debated different topics but we knew that we wanted to do a study that compared teachers and students.. After some brainstorming we decided to do the average age of their cars because we assumed that since teachers have regular- paying jobs, and have been working for money longer than students, they will have nicer cars to show for it, but we wanted to see if it was true. Plus, there is always the stereotype of all teenagers having beat up old cars and we know that just isn’t true for everyone. After doing some background research on this topic using Google as our search engine,  we found that the average age of teenager’s cars is 9.3 years which is classified as a “beater.”  We performed a survey in our school where we asked 60 teachers “What is the model year of the car you drive to school?” Instead of asking the same questions to students we just obtained the information we needed through the parking permit list. So,  our sample size was a total of 30 teachers and 30 students with parking passes at North Olmsted High School.  In our test, we acquired a mean car model year of 2002.53 for students showing that the average vehicle age of North Olmsted High School’s teenage students is 11.47 years, which is less than the average age of many teacher’s vehicles at 6.4 years. We got the mean ages of the car model years by subtracting the mean years we calculated from 2014 which is the newest model year of a car that someone can purchase as of now.  In conclusion, these results did match what we found in the background research of our study. Younger people tend to have less money to buy newer cars, and teenagers tend to drive “beaters.”