document.write( "Question 747088: Describe a strategy that uses the Binomial theorem to expand ( a+b+c)^12 \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Write (a+b+c)12 as [a+(b+c)]12\r\n" );
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document.write( "(a+b+c)12 = [a+(b+c)]12 =\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then let d = (b+c)\r\n" );
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document.write( "(a+b+c)12 = [a+(b+c)]12 = (a+d)12\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the binomial theorem to expand (a+d)12\r\n" );
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document.write( "There will be 13 terms, each term will contain a power of (b+c)\r\n" );
document.write( "from the 12th power all the way down to the 0th power.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the binomial theorem to expand each of those powers of (b+c).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Incidentally there will be a total of 91 terms after all like terms \r\n" );
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