Question

Eastland’s government has a total national debt of $500 million, which is financed as follows: $100 million is held by other government agencies, $200 million is held by Eastland’s citizens, and $200 million is held by foreign citizens. The amount of public debt in Eastland is:.

a) $500 million

d) $100 million

b) $400 million

c) $300 million

Answer 1

The public debt owed by Eastland is $400 million

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, we are asked to calculate the amount of public debt in Eastland.

Public debt refers to the amount of money owed by a country to external borrowers.

It doesn’t include such debt that the country owes itself. For example, debts owed by one agency of government to another.

Hence to calculate the public debt of Eastland, we add the amount of debts owed by citizens of Eastland + Amount of debts owed by foreign citizens in Eastland .

Amount of debt owed by citizens of Eastland is $200 million while the amount of debt owed by foreign citizens is also $200 million.

Mathematically the public debt will be ; $200 million + $200 million = $400 million