Mike and Jim are on vacation. They charge some expenses on their credit cards and make payments on the cards after the vacation. Jim also takes a cash advance on his card to use at places that do not accept credit cards. They each spend $450 on $1,000 credit cards with zero initial balance. Both cards have the same terms. Which of the following is true? Select the best answer from the choices provided. A. Mike will pay interest charges even if he pays his total balance before the due date. B. Jim will incur an annual membership fee because he did have a cash advance. C. Jim will pay interest charges even if he pays his total balance before the due date. D. Mike will incur an annual membership fee because he did not have a cash advance.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?