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.
The national debt of the United States is the debt carried by the federal government of the United States. The public debt is measured as the value of the currently outstanding Treasury securities that have been issued by the Treasury and other federal government agencies. The terms national deficit and national surplus usually refer to the federal government budget balance from year to year, not the cumulative amount of debt. A deficit year increases the debt as more money is spent than is rece