INTRODUCTION

This assessment is a Math assessment on our current unit statistics. Every individual in year 8 has to choose a topic that they want to research and create a survey about, and write a report of the data collected. I did my research on the top ten countries with the most cars per 1000 people. To do this I went on the internet to search.

REASEARCH QUESTION: What are the top 10 countries with the most cars per 1000 people? I think that the country with the most cars will be China because it is a rich country and is has many people. I also think that it would be the US or Russia because they are both big countries too.

HYPOTHESIS:

REASON FOR CHOICE:

I chose this topic because I am interested in cars and I have always wondered on which country has the most cars for a certain amount of people.

DATA COLLECTION:
I got the results from a few different websites. I concentrated most of my data on this website. The results that I got were not at all what I was expecting. I searched on the Internet to find the answer. I went on different websites to compare the results. A few websites had the same things/numbers. Seeing this, I made my graph with these results. On the next page, there is my graph. Instead of putting the results from most to least, I decided to put my results into alphabetical order to make the bars go up, down and back up again instead of having the bars go down diagonally. If you would like to see the raw data that I used, go to the last page.

Amount of Vehicles Per 1,000 People

1000 908 796

Amount of vehicles

900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0

730

696

724

690

749

743

812 718

Country

Median = 772.5
Working

Range = 908-690=218 Mode= most or 908 Mean = 696+724+690+796+749+743+908+718+812=6,836. 6,836/10=683.6

749, 756, 763, 770, 777, 784, 791,

750, 757, 764, 771, 778, 785, 792,

751, 758, 765, 772, 779, 786, 793,

752, 759, 766, 773, 780, 787, 794,

753, 760, 767, 774, 781, 788, 795,

754, 761, 768, 775, 782, 789, 796,

755, 762, 769, 776, 783, 790,

ANALYSING:
As you can see on the graph above, the graphs dont go in one direction and it is in alphabetical order. By looking at this graph, I can conclude that Monaco has the most cars per 1000 people. My theory was wrong; the most densely populated country does no that the most cars per 1000 people. Instead, Monaco has the most.

Thoughts and Conclusion:

ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:
The country with the most cars per 1000 people is Monaco. At first, I thought that this was impossible, but I then looked at other websites and saw that it was true. I think that the reason why China isnt in the top 10 is because not everyone has cars while in Monaco, a lot of people have one or more car.

ANALYSIS ON PROJECT:
Overall I think that this project went well. I think that I got the data required. I think that my graph is good because it is easy to see the results. I think that my method of data collection also went well because like I said, I got all the data needed.

Improvements:
I think that next time I should be a bit more organized with my work. At first, I found it tricky getting the mode, mean and median but then I got the hang of it. I think that next time I should also be more organized with time. During class I went of topic a little bit and didnt get a lot of work done. I also think that next time I should hand in my work on time.

Summary:
I chose to do a project on the top 10 countries with the most cars because I like cars and I was interested in finding it. I used websites to find my data and compared the results with other sites to see if the results were real. My hypothesis wasnt correct so I kept on looking on other websites and found that China actually didnt have to most cars per 1000 people. I also found the answer to my question Which countries had the most cars per 100 people.

RAW DATA TABLE

Original version from:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita>

1 Monaco 2 United States 3 Liechtenstein 4 Luxembourg 5 Malta 6 Australia 7 Iceland 8 New Zealand 9 Brunei 10 Italy

908

2009

[1]

812

2010

[2]

796

2008

[3]

749

2008

[3]

743

2011

[4]

730

January 2011
[3]

[5]

724

2005

718

2009

[1]

696

2007

[1]

690

2010

[6]

BIBLIOGRAPHY sites used the most:

"List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 01 May 2013. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. N.p., n.d. Web.