Should I buy an electric, gasoline, or hybrid car

Now that gasoline prices have reached new highs, we should consider again whether to buy an electric or hybrid car to save money and the planet?

Students create equations for finding the break-even points of these vehicles by mileage and years of ownership.  They then work with systems of equations to find the number of years or number of miles where the cost of these cars are the same.

2022 Honda Insight (Hybrid) MPG: Up to 55 city / 49 highway MSRP: From $25,760

2022 Honda Civic MPG: Up to 33 city / 42 highway MSRP: From $22,550

2022 Nissan Leaf MSRP From $27,400 40 kWh lithium-ion battery

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When-will-this-make-sense2022.pdf

CCSS: 6.SP, 6.RP, 7.RP, 7.SP, 8.SP, 8.EE.C, HSA, HSS.B, HSN

For members we have an editable Word docx, our Excel data with graphs, and solutions.

When-will-this-make-sense2022.docx       Insight-vs-Civic2022.xlsx

When-will-this-make-sense2022-solution.pdf

from Yummy Math https://www.yummymath.com/2022/should-i-buy-an-electric-gasoline-or-hybrid-car/