Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Yesterday, we learned a new unit called the Binomial Theorem. The first five equations he gave us all followed a pattern: *the sum of the exponents were equal to the power of the binomial
*Exponents of the first term in each begins with the same value as the power, and decreases by one in each term
*number of terms is one more than the power
*coefficients are combinations of the power number
Each one of the binomial expansions got bigger as their exponents got bigger, showing us pattern that relates closely to Pascal's triangle. After looking at the diagram i wasn't quite sure what it had to do with math, so i googled it, a useful site i found was this, http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pascal.triangle.html

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