Answer:
D. the financial cost of an item, which is very important.
Explanation:
Value is important to everybody because everybody is always going to want to know the value of an item because people always need/want money.
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B. bunch
Bunch restates the subject of "puppies", therefore it is the predicate nominative within the subject. Remember that a predicate nominative also follows a linking verb, in this case "in".
The term best to describe Benjamin Franklin's witty quotes is maxim.