We substitute n=1 That's true. Assume true for n=k (1) We want to show that if (1) is true, then the following is true: which simplifies to this: (2) ---------------------------------------------- So we start with what we assume to be true, which is (1): and add the next term to both sides: Now if we can show that the right side is equal to the right side of (2) then we will have proved the proposition by induction: = We get an LCD of (k+1)(k+2) = = = = = That's the same as the right side of (2) above. So we are done. Edwin