Budgetary Spending Items That Cannot Be Easily Avoided, Such as Interest

question 54

Multiple Choice

Budgetary spending items that cannot be easily avoided, such as interest payments on the national debt, are called __________ spending.

• A) subsidy
• B) mandatory
• C) discretionary
• D) deficit

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Definitions:

Conditional Operator

A ternary operator that provides a shorthand way to write if-else statements, evaluating a condition and returning one of two values.

Conditional Expression

A conditional expression, often using the ternary operator ?:, evaluates to one of two values depending on the truth value of a specified condition.

Ternary Operator

The ternary operator in programming is a conditional operator that simplifies the if-else statement into a single line of code, typically used in the format condition ? expression1 : expression2.