The Illest Road Trip Ever
Why My Road Trip Was Sick
When I joined PLP almost two years ago, I couldn’t even imagine a project like this. When it comes to PLP projects this was the most challenging, and creative projects yet, and that means a lot coming from a PLP student. Unfortunately this project wasn’t only fun and hands on work, two things that I admire in a project, there was a lot of raking your brain for answers, and trying to find equations that weren’t there. For me I found this project not only challenging, but also confusing, and I think in the future I would have assigned this project to an older grade.
One of the main reasons for this statement is that it took to much time doing the equation and finding places to stay. When we were first assigned this project I immediately knew that if you started with big expectations on your road trip you were going to end up with an incomplete project. Especially in my case, partially because my schedule is so clustered with extra circulars, and also partially because algebra is one of my weaknesses. Even with my free time out of school being very minimal I think we were given a fair amount of project time, so time dint effect how ill my Road Trip actually became.
This graph is baced on my cost per day of my automotive costs, and food and logging costs. The reason it curves is that my prices increase in my stay in LA and drop on my ride back to New York. The equation I used for this Graph is a y=mx. In my case my Equation was 780=39×20. 780 is my total cost for gas. 39 is my cost per day and 20 is the amount of days I’m using the car.
My first though on my road trip was that I would go from New York to LA and then back to New York. My vehicle choices for the trip was the Audi A4 Cabriolet a perfect choice for a perfect trip. I chose this mostly because it was a comfort vehicle and it had reasonable gas mileage. After checking the hours on my trip there and back I realized it would take ten days to get there and ten to get back. That made my trip have to be longer than twenty days, with the ten hours per day limit.
It didn’t take exactly two hundred hours to get there and back, it took one hundred and eighty two hours so I decided to dedicate the extra eighteen hours to my LA stay which would be eight days. When I got to LA I switched to a Lamborghini, a very materialistic choice. I chose the Lamborghini because I wanted to ride in style and also to make my trip more ill.
When it comes to food and lodging I chose an healthy alternative, but still some what posh lifestyle. I wanted for logging to mix hotel rooms and luxury suites, and for food to mix high quality cuisine and healthy nutritious meals.This makes it easier to stay fit while I’m surufing in LA
This is the graph I used to decipher what Sponcership was the most beneficial for my trip. The three Spencerships that I was considering we’re Snapple, Pepsi, and Coke. The equation we used for creating this graph and answering this question was y=mx+b. We had three of the four variables on the T chart we were given y the dependent variable, m the slope, and b the y-intercept. X was the cost per day, and after filling in the graph with the proper numbers (134=m6+110, example from Coca Cola) then I isolated the variable. The answer was that Coca Cola gave you 6$ a day (Pepsi gave 10$, Snapple gave 22$ a day). After finding the x variable for all three of the Sponsorships, I created the colour graph on excel and my findings were astonishing. My hypothesis was that Snapple was the least profitable Sponcership because it started in negative numbers. After doing the math I found out that it had the highest profit per day (22$ a day) which meant that it was more than double the profit of the other two Sponcerships.
Pepsi T Chart
Snapple T Chart
Coca Cola T Chart
When I finally finished my planing for food and lodging I realized that I still needed to filter the extra money I got from my Pepsi sponsorship. I chose Pepsi after looking at the graph and realizeing that in the amount of money fit up perfectly with the trip. On day 28 the Pepsi Sponcership gave 340$, it wasn’t the most Snapple gave 388$, and it wasn’t the least, Coca Cola gave 272$. At the end of my trip I wasn’t in need of money, so I chose Pepsi because it was a round number. So with the extra money and the Sponcership money, I decided to buy two surf boards to fill in my extra budget (each one thousand dollars). Ending my final amount spent on this road trip nineteen dollars under budget, with my overall budget being Eighteen thousand, pretty ill right.
