Refer to the Blitzer Bonus on page 32. Use scientific notation to verify any two of the bulleted items on ways to spend $1 trillion.

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Blitzer Bonus | Seven Ways to Spend $1 Trillion OC LOOOOLLO OLOOOLLOO OLLOOLOLOS DO OOOO OLOOOLLOO OLLO COLLOOLO 100 0101010011001010 1001010100110010101001 011001100010110011000 00101010011001010100110 10111000011101110000 110010101001 10110100010110 110111000 Image photobank.kiev.ua, 2009 100110001 Confronting a national debt of $18.9 trillion starts with grasping just how colossal $1 trillion (1 x 10¹2) actually is. To help you wrap your head around this mind-boggling number, and to put the national debt in further perspective, consider what $1 trillion will buy: 100001 • 40,816,326 new cars based on an average sticker price of $24,500 each • 5,574,136 homes based on the national median price of $179,400 for existing single-family homes • one year's salary for 14.7 million teachers based on the average teacher salary of $68,000 in California • the annual salaries of all 535 members of Congress for the next 10,742 years based on current salaries of $174,000 per year • the salary of basketball superstar LeBron James for 50,000 years based on an annual salary of $20 million • annual base pay for 59.5 million U.S. privates (that's 100 times the total number of active-duty soldiers in the Army) based on basic pay of $16,794 per year • salaries to hire all 2.8 million residents of the state of Kansas in full-time minimum-wage jobs for the next 23 years based on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour Source: Kiplinger.com