Fractures are common; the average person has two during a lifetime. They occur when the physical force exerted on the bone is stronger than the bone itself. Your risk of fracture depends, in part, on your age. Broken bones are very common in childhood, although children's fractures are generally less complicated than fractures in adults. As you age, your bones become more brittle and you are more likely to suffer fractures from falls that would not occur when you were young.
User: What is public debt? Weegy: Public debt, which is also sometimes referred to as government debt, is all of the money owed at any given time by any branch of the government. User: A(n) ____ is a monetary sum first paid by one person and then passed on to another. Weegy: A indirect tax is a monetary sum first paid by one person and then passed on to another.
Public debt, or national debt, is the sum of the financial obligations incurred by all government bodies of a county. This debt can be accumulated by the government directly or a government agency at any level. Pubic debt can arise from a number of sources, for example government bonds create a debt owed by the government to a member of the public.