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Paving with the Federal Debt. Suppose you began covering the ground with $1 bills. If you...

Paving with the Federal Debt. Suppose you began covering the ground with $1 bills. If you had the approximately $17 trillion 2013 federal debt in $1 bills, how much total area could you cover? Compare this area to the total land area of the United States, which is about 10 million square kilometers. (Hint: Assume that a dollar bill has an area of 100 square centimeters.)

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