You want to buy a new car, and you are thinking about two alternatives, car A and car B. You like both cars, and you are considering keeping whichever one you buy for many years to come. As a result, you want to evaluate the total cost of ownership of both cars over many years. Car A costs $20,000, whereas car B costs $30,000. Car A runs 25 miles with a gallon of gas, whereas car B runs 32 miles with a gallon of gas. You estimate that you will drive about 15,000 miles each year, and that gas price is going to be around $2.50 per gallon for the foreseeable future. The maintenance cost of car A is $1,300 in the first year, then that cost increases 15% (with compound growth) each year. The maintenance cost of car B is $1,000 in the first year, then that cost increases 10% (with compound growth) each year.

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You want to buy a new car, and you are thinking about two alternatives, car A and car B. You like both cars, and you are considering keeping whichever one you buy for many years to come. As a result, you want to evaluate the total cost of ownership of both cars over many years. Car A costs $20,000, whereas car B costs $30,000. Car A runs 25 miles with a gallon of gas, whereas car B runs 32 miles with a gallon of gas. You estimate that you will drive about 15,000 miles each year, and that gas price is going to be around $2.50 per gallon for the foreseeable future. The maintenance cost of car A is $1,300 in the first year, then that cost increases 15% (with compound growth) each year. The maintenance cost of car B is $1,000 in the first year, then that cost increases 10% (with compound growth) each year.
1)Write a method named compareCars(int years) that takes an integer number of years and prints a table with the total ownership cost of each car for each year, starting from year 0 which represents the time of purchase. The method will return the name of the most economical car on the last year. Note: For this problem, you are allowed to break the usual “no print statements inside a method” recommendation.
2)Using your method, answer this question: which car would you buy if you plan on keeping it for 5 years? 10 years? Discuss the results. Write your answer in a comment at the top of your code.