The Year 2001 Was the ____ Consecutive Year the U

question 130

Multiple Choice

The year 2001 was the ____ consecutive year the U.S. federal government had been running a budget ____.

• A)fourth; surplus
• B)fourth; deficit
• C)twenty-eighth; surplus
• D)twenty-eighth; deficit
• E)second; surplus

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Definitions:

Synaptic Pruning

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