The Public Debt Can Be Thought of as

question 100

Multiple Choice

The public debt can be thought of as

• A) the total amount consumers owe on their credit cards.
• B) the total amount in taxes consumers pay to the government.
• C) accumulated budget deficits and surpluses.
• D) the total amount the government spends for goods and services.

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Definitions:

Values

Numerical or categorical data points that represent measurement or identification in a given context.

Skewed Negatively

A description of a distribution of data where the majority of values are concentrated on the right of the mean, leading to a longer tail on the left side.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

Values

Quantitative or qualitative measurements, attributes, or properties of variables or items.