Question : Get a distinct result from three different tables

I have three tables which are accounts, Balance and customer (please see the table structure in the code section below) and I am trying to get distinct information from it without any particular customer repeating - here are the three statements I want to achieve and the statements I have tried to use:

1. I want to get all customers who have reached the 75% threshold:-

Select ((b.total / Limiter)*100) as perc, b.total, fname, lname from customer c, balance b WHERE c.status = 1 AND b.cid = c.id and ((b.total / Limiter)*100) < -75

This gets the customers, but if for instance Mark has reached 75 on his first transaction and on his second reaches 85% then the above statement is printing Mark two times, one with 75% and one with 85% when all I want is Mark to be listed once with the max percentage - 85% in this case.

2. This time I want to get customers whose due date is within 7 days

Select dateFrom, aid, min, mout, bal, dateTo, fname, lname from accounts a, customer c WHERE c.status = 1 and dateTO BETWEEN DATE_SUB( CURDATE( ) ,INTERVAL 0 DAY ) AND DATE_ADD( CURDATE( ) ,INTERVAL 4 DAY ) and id = cid

The statement above does almost what I want, however just like question 1 it repeats customers and their information when All that I want to display is the name, last balance and the due date.

Many thanks for your time.

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`accounts` (
  `aid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `cid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `mout` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `min` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `bal` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `dateFrom` date NOT NULL,
  `dateTo` date DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`aid`)
)

`balance` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `cid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `total` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `aid` (`cid`)
)

`customer` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `fname` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
  `lname` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
  `tel` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
  `Address` text NOT NULL,
  `Limiter` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)

Answer : Get a distinct result from three different tables

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