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3.1 Exercise 100

Avg difficulty 2.5

State budgets In June, 2011, the state of Pennsylvania estimated it would have a budget surplus of $540 million.\$\text{540 million}. That same month, Texas estimated it would have a budget deficit of $27 billion.\$\text{27 billion}. Use integers to write the budget:

  1. ⓐ surplus
  2. ⓑ deficit

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