Based on the context of expression used in the Hangman poem such as "capping sill of the courthouse door" it portrays a court house scene.
Therefore, the scaffold changed in size when it fine to execute or hang the two persons (victims) sentence. This hanging would have warranted increasing the height of the scaffold.
<span>The answer is $1075. The way to figure this out is to plug in 4 for n, which represents the number of years.
A(4) = 1000 + (4 - 1) * (0.025 * 1000)
A(4) = 1000 + 3 * 25
= $1075</span>
