Talbot Senior National School

Do they all have new ones?

We—Mr Molloy’s 5^th class—collected data
on the 6^th October 2014 to find out!

This is what we found out…

• The cars were from 2000 to 2014.
• There were 55 staff cars in all (including workers building the new classroom, and including staff of Nano Nagle school right beside us).
• 11 of them (11/55 or 20%) were 5 years old or newer… which means that 80% were over 5 years old! We think this might be because people can’t afford to buy new cars.
• There’s more older than newer cars. In fact there were 18 cars over 10 years old—that’s 18 out of 55, or 18/55, which is 33%–that’s like 1 in 3.
• There were 5 cars from 2005, 5 from 2006, 9 from 2007, 4 from 2008, 6 from 2009, 6 from 2010, 1 from 2011, 1 from 2012, 2 from 2013, and 1 from 2014.
• 2007 was the year with the most cars bought.
• Half the cars were bought in 2007 or before, half in 2007 or after.
• Only 1 car was bought this year (so far).
• We expected to see more than one jeep in the carpark but there was only one.

Have a look at the photo to see the detail.

Next year we think it would be good to collect just the data for Scoil Talbot’s staff. We’ll be in 6^th class so we might do it—we’d like to. #Excited!

Written by Daniel Olokun, Daragh Fleming, Samantha O’Donnell, and Grace Adenola

Three years ago, another class did the same thing. Click HERE to see what they found out. What was similar (like) and what was different?