A newspaper headline states that "the rate of growth of the national deficit is increasing". What does this mean? What does it say about the graph of the deficit as a function of time? @Mathematics

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A newspaper headline states that "the rate of growth of the national deficit is increasing". What does this mean? What does it say about the graph of the deficit as a function of time?   @Mathematics

anonymous · Answer

it just says that the graph increases quadratically or something.

anonymous · Answer

or in other words: as time elapses, the national deficit grows faster :-P

anonymous · Answer

It means the government is spending money faster than ever before.  It's sad, really.

shadowfiend · Answer

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