How do I erase hdd using Mavericks?

So I'm getting ready to sell my old Macbook Pro, it was running Snow leopard and I wanted to erase the hdd (so no one can steal anything) but I didn't have the Snow Leopard disk with me, so I decided to just upgrade it to Mavericks (it's free, so why not?) and hope that the Internet could help me from there. So how do I prep my computer for selling without leaving anything on the hdd?

These are the two discs that came with the computer when I bought it, I looked online a little bit to see how I boot from these (restarting with disc inserted and holding down "c") and nothing happened :/ Could it be that from OS X Mavericks it's not possible to boot from these? When I click on "Install Mac OS X" from the window that pops up, it says "PowerPC Applications are not supported"

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