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Decide whether each of the following statements makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain your reasoning.

Next year's federal deficit will be $675.734\$ 675.734 billion.

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This statement doesn't make sense because the precision of this federal deficit for the next year is less than 1%1\%. This is not small money, and it cannot be predicted to this precision, so this is not credible.

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