Let S denote the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of ( a + b + c ) 1 7 .
Submit your answer as the sum of the last three digits of S .
Clarification : if your answer is 12345667 then write 6 + 6 + 7 = 1 9 as your answer.
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The sum of the coefficients in expansion of
( a + b + c ) n = 3 n . The rest is clear.
3^17= 129140163. Thus answer is 10.
I got it in same way....but can you please help me out on how to solve the same question if a,b or c had some coefficients...
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I'm not sure either I'm hoping someone can explain why substituting values for a,b, and c allows u to solve this problem
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What I meant was how to solve this question if it was ( 2a + 4b + 7c )^n Or any other coefficients of a,b or c
Samarth K I am not an expert on this but i will try to give a sophisticated answer to the full extent of my knowledge.
Suppose you have to find the sum of coefficients in ( 2 a + 4 b + 7 c ) 5 . Then First factor it in 5 terms
that is (2a+4b+7c)*(2a+4b+7c).... 5 Times.
Now For ease (2a+4b+7c)=(a+a+b+b+b+b+c+c+c+c+c+c+c). Which means total objects are 2+4+7=13
Now total way of taking one object out of 13 objects is
1 1 3 C . Now you have to take it 5 times (raised to power 5) as these are mutually exclusive.
Therefore your answer would be 12^5=248832
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But what about 'a' being repeated twice 'b' being repeated 4 times and 'c' being repeated 7 times? Though I am not sure about it...
Think simply, if we expand this we will get many terms involving a,b,c and there will be coefficients attached to them. So if put a,b,c all equal to 1 don't you think we will get the sum of coefficients?
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I got that....but what I wanted to know was how to solve this question if a,b or c had some coefficients themselves... in that case replacing a,b and c with 1 won't work right?
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To get the sum of coefficients in the expansion of ( a + b + c ) n , we can substitute a = 1 , b = 1 , and c = 1 to ( a + b + c ) n
It is equal to ( 1 + 1 + 1 ) n = 3 n
Then, the sum of coefficients in the expansion of ( a + b + c ) 1 7 is 3 1 7 = 1 2 9 1 4 0 1 6 3
S = 1 + 6 + 3 = 1 0