Answer:
Questioned him to gain privileged information.
Explanation:
Towards the end of the passage, we learn from the speaker that Bradford <em>was a crafty old sophister. </em>
<em>Sophisters</em><em> </em>or<em> sophists </em>were pre-Socratic philosophers whose domain of expertise were skills that can be compared to modern day advocacy, manipulating arguments so as to convince their interlocutors of anything at anytime.
The primary meaning of the word <em>art </em>is skill, <em>artful </em>here meaning <em>skillful</em>. If Bradford were a sophister, that would mean he knew just what to say or do, in order to get what he wanted. And it is exactly what he did. He managed to go unnoticed and get the information he wanted from Keimer thanks to his <em>artful questions.</em>
<span>The APR would be 20%. This would yield Sam $600 in a year, so he would earn $300 in six months as long as the interest was non compounding. The interest rate is multiplied by the amount of principal, and then multiplied by the amount of time. In this case the time is 6/12.</span>
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