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Consider the expansion (x + 2)^11 What are the number of terms in this expansion. Find the term containing x^2

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You have the three components for each term:-The x component, which will have power n-k.-The y component (or in this question, y=2 so we will have a power of 2), so for term k we will have 2^k.-The binomial coefficient.
Since we know the value of y the numbers in the expansion will come from the binomial coefficient multiplied by the respective power of 2. Let me give another example:Say we want the term with x^7. Then n-k=7, so 11-k=7 and k=4.
So for the numbers which multiply x^7, we will have:2^k=2^4=16.The binomial coefficient 11C4=330.Multiplying these together we get the term 5,280x^7.
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