Answer:
There are ways for quickly multiply out a binomial that's being raised by an exponent. Like
(a + b)0 = 1
(a + b)1 = a + b
(a + b)2 = a2 + 2ab + b2
(a + b)3 = (a + b)(a + b)2 = (a + b)(a2 + 2ab + b2) = a3 + 3a2b + 3ab2 + b3
and so on and so on
but there was this mathematician named Blaise Pascal and he found a numerical pattern, called Pascal's Triangle, for quickly expanding a binomial like the ones from earlier. It looks like this
1 1
2 1 2 1
3 1 3 3 1
4 1 4 6 4 1
5 1 5 10 10 5 1
Pascal's Triangle gives us the coefficients for an expanded binomial of the form (a + b)n, where n is the row of the triangle.
Hope this helps!
