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    How To Score High Marks in JEE Main Maths Paper 2026? - Tips, Tricks & Important Topics

    Multinomial Theorem - Practice Questions & MCQ

    Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #JEE Main

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    Multinomial Theorem

    As a binomial has two terms raised to some power, similarly a multinomial has multiple terms raised to some power.
    $\mathrm{eg}_{,}\left(\mathrm{x}_1+\mathrm{x}_2+\mathrm{x}_3+\ldots \ldots .+\mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{k}}\right)^n \quad($ Where n is a positive integer)
    Expansion for the multinomial $\left(\mathrm{x}_1+\mathrm{x}_2+\mathrm{x}_3+\ldots \ldots . .+\mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{k}}\right)^n$ is

    $
    \left(\mathrm{x}_1+\mathrm{x}_2+\mathrm{x}_3+\ldots .+\mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{k}}\right)^{\mathrm{n}}=\sum \frac{\mathrm{n}!}{\alpha_{1}!\alpha_{2}!\alpha_{3}!\ldots \alpha_{\mathrm{k}}!}\left(\mathrm{x}_1^{\alpha_1} \cdot \mathrm{x}_2^{\alpha_2} \cdot \mathrm{x}_3^{\alpha_1} \cdot \ldots \cdot \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{k}}^{\alpha_{\mathrm{k}}}\right)
    $

    with $a_1+a_2+a_3+\ldots .+a_k=n$,
    and $a_1, a_2, a_3, \ldots, a_k \in W \mid$
    In particular,

    $
    (\mathrm{a}+\mathrm{b}+\mathrm{c})^{\mathrm{n}}=\sum \frac{\mathrm{n!}}{(\alpha!)(\beta!)(\gamma!)} \mathrm{a}^\alpha \mathrm{b}^\beta \mathrm{c}^\gamma
    $
    The number of distinct terms in the multinomial expansion $\left(\mathrm{x}_1+\mathrm{x}_2+\mathrm{x}_3+\ldots \ldots .+\mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{k}}\right)^{\mathrm{n}}{ }_{\text {is }}{ }^{\mathrm{n}+\mathrm{k}-1} \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{k}-1}$

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