John used his MasterCard credit card to purchase groceries for $75.63, gas for $93.45, and a video game for $61.93 this month. How much should his payment to his credit card company be in order for him to
avoid interest charges on these purchases?

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry. how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.