Suppose the U.S. national debt is about $15 trillion. If payments were made at the rate of $1,500 per second, how many years would it take to pay off the debt, assuming no interest were charged? Note: Before doing these calculations, try to guess at the answers. You may be very surprised. yr (b) A dollar bill is about 15.5 cm long. How many dollar bills attached end to end would it take to reach the Moon? The Earth-Moon distance is 3.84 108 m. dollar bills
