Precalculus - 8.
4 Review: Binomial Expansion and Basic Combinatorics
Study this in addition to in-class handouts and homework!
1. Evaluate each without a calculator:
æ6ö æ6ö
a) çç ÷÷ b) çç ÷÷ c) 15 C13
è 4ø è 2ø
æ n + 1ö
d) 200 C199 e) 7 C0 f) çç ÷÷
è n ø
æ n + 2ö
g) n+3 C1 h) çç ÷÷
è n -1 ø
95 95
2. What value of x, besides 73, makes this equation true? ! &=! &
73 (
3. You have a box of 12 different books.
a) You have a shelf that holds only 5 books. How many different ways can you a) ______________
arrange 5 of your books on the shelf?
b) You are going on a trip, and want to take 5 of your 12 books with you. How b) ______________
many different groups of 5 books are possible?
4. There are 24 people in a room, and each person is going to fist-bump with every other person in the
room. How many total daps will take place?
5. There are 150 students in the graduating class of Nemuchet High.
a) 30 students apply to go to Harvard Model Congress, but only 6 will be selected. How many different
groups of 6 can made?
b) At graduation, the salutatorian will give a speech, followed by the valedictorian. How many different
configurations of salutatorian and valedictorian are possible from the 150 students?
6. Mr. Murfie makes 12% of his basketball shots. What is the probability that he makes exactly 7 out
of his next 17 shots?
7. A roulette wheel is spun and a number comes up. There are 38 equally likely outcomes on this particular
wheel: 0 and 00 (both green), odd numbers 1 – 35 (in red) and even numbers 2 – 36 (in black).
If the wheel is spun 5 times, what is the probability of obtaining:
a) a black even number three times? b) a prime number twice?
(Hint: prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, …)
8. How many terms will be in the expansion of ( 2 x - 7 y 3 )
4 k + 55
? 8. ________________
9. How many items are in Row (5n – 7) of Pascal’s Triangle? 9. ________________
10. Give an expression, in “chooser notation,” to calculate the 7th item in row 10. ________________
44 of Pascal’s Triangle. (You do not need to evaluate it.)
Expand each binomial completely without a calculator.
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11. )2( ! − √3-
4
æ y5 ö
12. çç x 3 + 2 ÷÷
è x ø
13. (3 − / # )$
f ( x + h) - f ( x )
14. For each function, set up and simplify the “difference quotient” .
h
a) 1(() = 6( !
b) 1(() = 2( # − 7(
15. Find the coefficient of the 14th term in the expansion of (2( − 3)%" 15. ________________
Find the specified term in the given binomial expansion.
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16. For )/ # − √6- , the middle term
%$
17. For )3√5 − ( $ 3 ( - , the term containing x 45
# %'
18. For !23 ( − ) ! & , the tenth term
19. For (( # 3 * − 4( 5 $ )%% , the term where x and a have the same exponent
