You currently drive 300 miles per week in a car that gets 15 miles per gallon of gas. You are considering buying a new fuel-efficient car for $12,000 (after trade-in on your current car) that gets 50 miles per gallon. Insurance premiums for the new and old car are $800 and $600 per year, respectively. You anticipate spending $1200 per year on repairs for the old car and having no repairs on the new car. Assume gas costs $3.50 per gallon. Over a five-year period, is it less expensive to keep your old car or buy the new car?

No, it is not less expensive to keep the old car as the price calculation is higher then the New Car

Purchasing new car is less expensive

Step-by-step explanation:

NEW CAR EXPENSES= $21,240

OLD CAR EXPENSES= $25,800

NB: Kindly check attached picture for calculations

a 4/6 = 9/12   not proportional

step-by-step explanation:

to find which are not proportional, we can use cross products

if it is true, they are proportional.   if it is not true, they are not proportional.

a 4/6 = 9/12

4* 12 = 6*9

48 = 54

not this is not proportional  

b 2/3 = 12/18  

2* 18 = 3 * 12

36 = 36

this is proportional

c 5/4 = 10/8  

5*8 = 4*10

40 = 40

this is proportional

d 7/5 = 35/25

7*25 = 5 * 35

175 = 175

is proportional

correct answer is b. 27/8

step-by-step explanation: