If fruit protects it's seeds/pulp than why are strawberry seeds on the outside?

Kay - This will explain it much better than I could:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberries

The strawberry is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries which are the "seeds" (actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium that held the ovaries. So from a technical standpoint, the seeds are the actual fruits of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is modified receptacle tissue. It is whitish-green as it develops and in most species turns red when ripe.

BBWCHATT

The old lady in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Fruit isn't necessarily there to protect the seeds. Often the fruit flesh is there to temp animals to eat it, along with the seeds. Then the animal will disperse the seeds. You can use your imagination as to how. So an animal might eat a strawberry and consequently, its seeds, and then digest them, go to the bathroom a ways away from the plant, and deposit the seeds in the soil.

Who ever said fruit protects it's seeds. A fruit is a fruit depending on the ovaries