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.
(An aside: the national debt is made up of publicly held debt and money that the government owes to itself. Boehnerâs $16 trillion number is this âgross debtâ figure. About $11.5 trillion is public debt and the rest comes from bonds held by Social Security, Medicare and other trust funds.