depth or national debt?
The first thing you need to do is find the numbers.
For the debt, see http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
For the trade deficit, see the monthly and year-to-date numbers at
http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp
They may want you to add up the last 12 months for the annual trade deficit.
The convert to scientific (exponential) notation. I assume you know how to do that
How large is the current U.S. depth and the trade deficit in exponential notation?
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