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LAB ACTIVITIES-6 Pascal Triangles

The document outlines a lab activity for constructing Pascal's triangle and deriving binomial expressions for positive integral exponents. It includes a step-by-step procedure for creating the triangle using matchsticks and explains how to identify coefficients for binomial expansions. Additionally, it discusses the applications of Pascal's triangle in combinatorics and probability.

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LAB ACTIVITIES-6 Pascal Triangles

The document outlines a lab activity for constructing Pascal's triangle and deriving binomial expressions for positive integral exponents. It includes a step-by-step procedure for creating the triangle using matchsticks and explains how to identify coefficients for binomial expansions. Additionally, it discusses the applications of Pascal's triangle in combinatorics and probability.

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LAB ACTIVITY- 6

PASCAL’S TRIANGLE
OBJECTIVE:

To construct a Pascal’s triangle and to write binomial expression for a given positive integral
exponent practically.

PROCEDURE:

1. Firstly, take a sheet.


2. Take some matchsticks and arrange them as shown in below fig

3. Write the numbers as :

4. Now, figure looks like a triangle which is known as Pascal’s triangle.


5. Numbers of third row give the co-efficients of the terms of the binomial expansion of
(a+b)2.
6. Numbers of fourth row give the co-efficients of the terms of the binomial expansion of
(a+b)3.
7. Numbers of fifth row give the co-efficients of the terms of the binomial expansion of (a+b)4.
8. Numbers of sixth row give the co-efficients of the terms of the binomial expansion of (a+b)5
and so on.
9. Write binomial expansion of (a+b)n , using the numbers given in the (n+1)th row.
OBSERVATION:

1. Numbers in the second row are ______________, which are coefficients of binomial
expansion of _______________.
2. Numbers in the fourth row are _____________________, which are coefficients of the
binomial expansion of _____________.
3. (a+b)3 = _________a3 + ___________a2b + __________ ab2 + __________b3.

APPLICATION:

1. This activity can help to write binomial expansion for (a+b)n, where ‘n’ is a positive integer.
2. Pascal’s triangle can show you how many ways heads and tails can combine.
3. Pascal’s triangle also shows how many combinations of objects are possible.

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