Angela

Choosing a rental car company that offers the best deal. Students choose a State in Australia that they will be visiting with their family for one day during the September school holidays.
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Their family needs to hire a car to travel around this State. Their family prefers to hire a Holden Commodore or a Ford Falcon. Students will need to determine the best car rental deal that is available in this State so that they can travel by car for a day.

Students will investigate a minimum of two car rental companies and their fees and charges.

Based on their findings, students will need to advise their family in regards to the best car rental company for their visit to the State of their choice for one day.

The final report will need to be produced on-line and an oral presentation of the report will also be given to the class.

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Deal or no deal?

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What makes a State of Australia the best or the preferred State in Australia to visit? When would we need to decide which is the best deal?

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How do we determine which would be the best car rental company? What data can we create from the information and how can we use this information to assist in choosing the best car rental company? How can we use graphs to compare car rental company deals? For a linear graph that represents the deal offered by a particular car rental company, what would the gradient of the line represent? What would the y-intercept represent?