Recursion Tracing Exercise: Function return

Khan.randRange(2, 10) Khan.randRange(2, 10)

Consider the following function: int func (int x, int y) { if (y == 1) return x; else return x + func(x, y + 1); } What value does func(x , y) return?
(Either write a number, or write "infinite recursion".)

infinite recursion

The base case is executed when y reaches zero while the recursive call is incrementing y. Since y is positive, then the base case will never be executed.