2008 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 19
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Problem
In the expansion of
,
what is the coefficient of ?
Solution
Let and
. We are expanding
.
Since there are terms in
, there are
ways to choose one term from each
. The product of the selected terms is
for some integer
between
and
inclusive. For each
, there is one and only one
in
. Since there is only one way to choose one term from each
to get a product of
, there are
ways to choose one term from each
and one term from
to get a product of
. Thus the coefficient of the
term is
.
See Also
2007 AMC 12A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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