Q. Use Pascal's Triangle to expand (y−4z)4. Express your answer in simplest form.Answer:
Identify Row: Identify the row of Pascal's Triangle that corresponds to the exponent 4. The row for the exponent 4 is the fifth row (starting with row 0 for the exponent 0), which is 1,4,6,4,1.
Write Expansion: Write out each term of the expansion using the coefficients from Pascal's Triangle.The expansion will have terms that correspond to (y−4z)4, (y−4z)3, (y−4z)2, (y−4z)1, and (y−4z)0, multiplied by the coefficients 1, 4, 6, 4, 1 respectively.
Expand Binomial: Expand each term of the binomial using the binomial theorem.The terms will be:1⋅(y4)+4⋅(y3)(−4z)+6⋅(y2)(−4z)2+4⋅(y)(−4z)3+1⋅(−4z)4
Simplify Terms: Simplify each term.Now we simplify each term by calculating the powers and multiplying by the coefficients:1⋅y4+4⋅y3⋅(−4z)+6⋅y2⋅(16z2)+4⋅y⋅(−64z3)+1⋅(256z4)
Combine and Write: Combine like terms and write the final expression.The final expanded form is:y4−16y3z+96y2z2−256yz3+256z4
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