During 2016, Dave and Mike, who live in California as a married couple, paid $5,500 in interest on their main home, $2,700 in interest on their vacation home in Tahoe (never rented as Dave does not like other peoples germs except for Mikes), and they bought a recreational vehicle (RV) that slept two people, had a mini-stove and a mini-bathroom in it. They loved to drive to various places during the year and visited Yellowstone Park, Yosemite Park and 12 different baseball stadiums where Mike caught a homerun ball in St. Louis. They paid $4,800 in interest on the debt they used to buy the RV. Assuming Dave and Mike file a joint federal return for 2016, what will be there mortgage interest expense deduction?

Group of answer choices

a. 13,000

b. 5,500

c. 8,200

d. 10,300

e. 0