How do you expand (d5)6 using Pascal’s Triangle?

1 Answer
Oct 2, 2015

See the explanation below.

Explanation:

Use the 7th row:
1 6 15 20 15 6 1 to get the coefficients.

Powers on d are decreasing from 6 to 0 and powers on 5 are increasing from 0 to 6.

(d5)6=1d6+6d5(5)1+15d4(5)2+20d3(5)3+15d2(5)4+6d1(5)5+1(5)6

=d6+6d5(5)+15d4(25)+20d3(125)+15d2(625)+6d1(3125)+1(15625)

=d630d5+375d42500d3+9375d218750d+15625