Comparing costs method

[gwithey]

I am doing a qestion in which i had to build a car class and create a series of simple functionality.

However the method mostCostly is proving dificult.

The desired functionality of this method is as follows:

"The mostCostly method returns the greater cost of the two Cars by comparing the cost of itself with the cost of the Car passed in as a parameter."

Just experiencing dificulties coparing the peramiter to itself. (presuming itself means (Class "Car"))

My attempt at this is:

package assignment3;

import java.awt.Color;

public class Car {

    private String model;
    private Color color;
    private int cost;

    public Car(String model, Color color, int cost) {
        this.model = model;
        this.color = color;
        this.cost = cost;
    }

    public Car(String model) {
        this.model = model;
        cost = 10000;
        color = Color.black;
    }

    public String getModel() {
        return model;
    }

    public void setModel(String model) {
        this.model = model;
    }

    public Color getColor() {
        return color;
    }

    public void setColor(Color color) {
        this.color = color;
    }

    public int getCost() {
        return cost;
    }

    public void setCost(int cost) {
        this.cost = cost;
    }

    public int mostCostly(Car car) {

        int perameterCar = car.getCost();
        int largest1 = perameterCar - cost;
        int largest2 = cost - perameterCar;
        car.equals(car);

        return largest;
    }
}

i know the methods completely wrong and doesnt do anything but does anyone know how i would go about creating this method.

Thanx George

[masijade]

if (cost > car.cost)

maybe?

[gwithey]

Thanx for the help just couldn't get my head round the class relationship side as im new to this.

public int mostCostly(Car car) {

        int largest = 0;
        if (cost > car.cost) {
            largest = cost;
        } else {
            largest = car.cost;
        }

        return largest;
    }

I think this is the right idea now to return the higher value.