Aconvenience store pays a farmer $1.25 per pineapple. if it costs the farmer $0.15 in seeds, $0.25 in fertilizer, and $0.25 in forgone output to grow each pineapple, the value added by the farmer to each pineapple is:

$0.60

Step-by-step explanation:

The costs are:

$0.15 + $0.25 = $0.40

He sells it for $1.25.

The value added is:

$1.25 - $0.40 = $0.85

i would have to say it is c.

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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