Tai Kwong Hilary College

Assignment for WEEK 23 (Semester 2)

Grade 9
THE BINOMIAL SERIES
Due on 25 Jan

Complete the questions on the homework exercise book and upload in Managebac in PDF
format on or before the deadline.
You MUST write down detailed steps for all the questions as required.

CHAPTER 6
Page Questions
104 2,4,6,8,10,12

Challenging Questions
1. (a) Find the first 3 terms of the expansion of (3 + 2x)6 in ascending powers of 𝑥𝑥.
(b) Hence find the coefficient of 𝑥𝑥 2 in the expansion of (3 + 2𝑥𝑥)6 (1 − 2𝑥𝑥 + 6𝑥𝑥 2 ).

𝑎𝑎 8
2. In the expansion of �𝑥𝑥 2 + 𝑥𝑥 � , where 𝑎𝑎 ≠ 0, the coefficient of 𝑥𝑥 𝑟𝑟 is denoted by 𝐵𝐵𝑟𝑟

Find the value of 𝑎𝑎 if 𝐵𝐵7 = 4𝐵𝐵10

3. Given that (1 + 𝑥𝑥 + 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 2 ) = 1 + 6𝑥𝑥 + 𝑘𝑘1 𝑥𝑥 2 + 𝑘𝑘2 𝑥𝑥 3 +terms involving higher powers of 𝑥𝑥
(a) Express 𝑘𝑘1 and 𝑘𝑘2 in terms of 𝑎𝑎.
(b) If 6, 𝑘𝑘1 and 𝑘𝑘2 are in arithmetic progression, find the value of 𝑎𝑎.

4. (a) If 𝑥𝑥 is so small that terms in 𝑥𝑥 𝑛𝑛 , 𝑛𝑛 ≥ 3, can be neglected and

1
3+𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎
3+𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏
= (1 − 𝑥𝑥)3

Find the values of 𝑎𝑎 and of 𝑏𝑏.

𝑝𝑝
(b) Hence, without the use of calculators, find an approximation in the form 𝑞𝑞,
3
where 𝑝𝑝 and 𝑞𝑞 are integers, for √0.96