Can you help Phoenix?

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Phoenix has 32 cards out of which 10 cards, each of blue, green, and red colors have denominations as::{2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024} and 1 black and 1 white card have value unity each. Then the number of ways in which Phoenix can get a sum of 2016 if he can choose any number of cards is?


The answer is 1018081.

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1 solution

Shuvam Keshari
Sep 27, 2015

use multinomial theorem to find the coefficient of t^2016.

you can use the concept of "take it or leave it".

ShuVam student posting Shubham sir's questions!

Shyambhu Mukherjee - 5 years, 5 months ago

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a similar question actually appeared in a foreign mathematical Olympiad. obviously sir did not make the question, and please rectify my name!!

shuvam keshari - 5 years, 5 months ago

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Good actually my view is narrower so I thought that. However good problem.

Shyambhu Mukherjee - 5 years, 5 months ago

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