NCERT Exemplar Solutions
Class 11 - Mathematics
Chapter 8: BINOMIAL THEOREM

Short Answer Type

Question. 1

Find the term independent of \(x\), \(x \neq 0\), in the expansion of \(\left(\dfrac{3x^{2}}{2}-\dfrac{1}{3x}\right)^{15}\).

Answer:

\(\dfrac{1001}{2592}\)

Question. 2

If the term free from \(x\) in the expansion of \(\left(\sqrt{x}-\dfrac{k}{x^{2}}\right)^{10}\) is \(405\), find the value of \(k\).

Answer:

\(k=\pm 3\)

Question. 3

Find the coefficient of \(x\) in the expansion of \((1-3x+7x^{2})(1-x)^{16}\).

Answer:

\(-19\)

Question. 4

Find the term independent of \(x\) in the expansion of \(\left(3x-\dfrac{2}{x^{2}}\right)^{15}\).

Answer:

\(-3003\cdot 3^{10}\cdot 2^{5}\) (i.e. \(-3003\,(3^{10})(2^{5})\))

Question. 5

Find the middle term(s) in the following expansions:

(i) \(\left(\dfrac{x}{a}-\dfrac{a}{x}\right)^{10}\)

(ii) \(\left(3x-\dfrac{x^{3}}{6}\right)^{9}\)

Answer:

(i) middle term is the term with index \(k=5\): \(-252\).

(ii) the two middle terms are:
for \(k=4\): \(\dfrac{189}{8}x^{17}\),
for \(k=5\): \(-\dfrac{21}{16}x^{19}\).

Question. 6

Find the coefficient of \(x^{15}\) in the expansion of \((x-x^{2})^{10}\).

Answer:

\(-252\)

Question. 7

Find the coefficient of \(\dfrac{1}{x^{17}}\) in the expansion of \(\left(x^{4}-\dfrac{1}{x^{3}}\right)^{15}\).

Answer:

\(-1365\)

Question. 8

Find the sixth term of the expansion \(\left(\dfrac{1}{y^{2}}+\dfrac{1}{x^{3}}\right)^{n}\), if the binomial coefficient of the third term from the end is \(45\).

Answer:

From \(\binom{n}{2}=45\) we get \(n=10\). Sixth term (\(k=5\)) is \(\displaystyle \binom{10}{5}\,\dfrac{1}{y^{10}}\dfrac{1}{x^{15}}=252\,x^{-15}y^{-10}\).

Question. 9

Find the value of \(r\), if the coefficients of the \((2r+4)\)-th and \((r-2)\)-th terms in the expansion of \((1+x)^{18}\) are equal.

Answer:

\(r=6\)

Question. 10

If the coefficients of the second, third and fourth terms in the expansion of \((1+x)^{2n}\) are in A.P., show that \(2n^{2}-9n+7=0\).

Answer:

Let the coefficients be \(C_{1}=\binom{2n}{1}=2n\), \(C_{2}=\binom{2n}{2}=n(2n-1)\), \(C_{3}=\binom{2n}{3}=\dfrac{(2n)(2n-1)(2n-2)}{6}\). A.P. condition: \(2C_{2}=C_{1}+C_{3}\). Substituting and simplifying gives \(2n^{2}-9n+7=0\).

Question. 11

Find the coefficient of \(x^{4}\) in the expansion of \((1+x+x^{2}+x^{3})^{11}\).

Answer:

Number of weak compositions of 4 into 11 parts (each \(\le 3\)) equals \(\binom{4+11-1}{11-1}=\binom{14}{10}=\binom{14}{4}=1001\).

Long Answer Questions

Question. 12

If \(p\) is a real number and if the middle term in the expansion of \(\left(\dfrac{p}{2}+2\right)^8\) is 1120, find \(p\).

Answer:

\(p=\pm 2\)

Question. 13

Show that the middle term in the expansion of \(\left(x-\dfrac{1}{x}\right)^{2n}\) is \(\dfrac{1\times3\times5\times\dots\times(2n-1)}{n!}\times(-2)^n\).

Question. 14

Find \(n\) in the binomial \(\left(\sqrt[3]{2}+\dfrac{1}{\sqrt[3]{3}}\right)^n\) if the ratio of the 7th term from the beginning to the 7th term from the end is \(\dfrac{1}{6}\).

Answer:

\(n=9\)

Question. 15

In the expansion of \((x+a)^n\) if the sum of odd terms is denoted by \(O\) and the sum of even terms by \(E\), prove that:

(i) \(O^2-E^2=(x^2-a^2)^n\)

(ii) \(4OE=(x+a)^{2n}-(x-a)^{2n}\)

Question. 16

If \(x^p\) occurs in the expansion of \(\left(x^2+\dfrac{1}{x}\right)^{2n}\), prove that its coefficient is \(\dbinom{2n}{\dfrac{2n+p}{3}}\) (for integral \(\dfrac{2n+p}{3}\)).

Question. 17

Find the term independent of \(x\) in the expansion of \(\left(\dfrac{3}{2}x^2-\dfrac{1}{3x}\right)^9\).

Objective Type Question

Choose the correct answer from the given four options:

Question.  18

The total number of terms in the expansion of \( (x + a)^{100} + (x - a)^{100} \) after simplification is

(A)

50

(B)

202

(C)

51

(D)

none of these

Question.  19

Given the integers \(r > 1, n > 2\), and coefficients of \((3r)^{th}\) and \((r+2)^{nd}\) terms in the binomial expansion of \((1 + x)^{2n}\) are equal, then

(A)

\(n = 2r\)

(B)

\(n = 3r\)

(C)

\(n = 2r + 1\)

(D)

none of these

Question.  20

The two successive terms in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{24}\) whose coefficients are in the ratio 1:4 are

(A)

3rd and 4th

(B)

4th and 5th

(C)

5th and 6th

(D)

6th and 7th

Question.  21

The coefficient of \(x^{n}\) in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{2n}\) and \((1 + x)^{2n-1}\) are in the ratio

(A)

1 : 2

(B)

1 : 3

(C)

3 : 1

(D)

2 : 1

Question.  22

If the coefficients of 2nd, 3rd and the 4th terms in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{n}\) are in A.P., then value of \(n\) is

(A)

2

(B)

7

(C)

11

(D)

14

Question.  23

Choose the correct statement regarding the binomial identities (question text from source).

(A)

Option A

(B)

Option B

(C)

Option C

(D)

Option D

Question.  24

Choose the correct statement regarding the binomial identities (question text from source).

(A)

Option A

(B)

Option B

(C)

Option C

(D)

Option D

Fill in the Blanks

Question. 25

The largest coefficient in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{30}\) is ________.

Answer:

\(^{30}C_{15}\)

Question. 26

The number of terms in the expansion of \((x + y + z)^n\) is ________.

Answer:

\(\dfrac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}\)

Question. 27

In the expansion of \(\left(x^2 - \dfrac{1}{x^2}\right)^{16}\), the value of constant term is ________.

Answer:

\(^{16}C_{8}\)

Question. 28

If the seventh terms from the beginning and the end in the expansion of \(\left(\sqrt[3]{2} + \dfrac{1}{\sqrt[3]{3}}\right)^n\) are equal, then \(n\) equals ________.

Answer:

12

Question. 29

The coefficient of \(a^{-6} b^{4}\) in the expansion of \(\left(\dfrac{1}{a} - \dfrac{2b}{3}\right)^{10}\) is ________.

Answer:

\(\dfrac{1120}{27} a^{-6} b^{4}\)

Question. 30

Middle term in the expansion of \((a^3 + ba)^{28}\) is ________.

Answer:

\(^{28}C_{14} a^{56} b^{14}\)

Question. 31

The ratio of the coefficients of \(x^p\) and \(x^q\) in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{p+q}\) is ________.

Answer:

1

Question. 32

The position of the term independent of \(x\) in the expansion of \(\left(\dfrac{x}{3} + \dfrac{3}{2x^2}\right)^{10}\) is ________.

Answer:

Third term

Question. 33

If \(25^{15}\) is divided by 13, the remainder is ________.

Answer:

12

True or False

Question. 34

The sum of the series \(\sum_{r=0}^{10} \binom{20}{r}\) is \(2^{19} + \dfrac{\binom{20}{10}}{2}\).

Answer:

False

Question. 35

The expression \(7^9 + 9^7\) is divisible by 64.

Answer:

True

Question. 36

The number of terms in the expansion of \([(2x + y^3)^4]^7\) is 8.

Answer:

False

Question. 37

The sum of coefficients of the two middle terms in the expansion of \((1 + x)^{2n - 1}\) is equal to \(\binom{2n - 1}{n}\).

Answer:

False

Question. 38

The last two digits of the number \(3^{400}\) are 01.

Answer:

True

Question. 39

If the expansion of \((x - \dfrac{1}{x^2})^{2n}\) contains a term independent of \(x\), then \(n\) is a multiple of 2.

Answer:

False

Question. 40

The number of terms in the expansion of \((a + b)^n\) where \(n \in \mathbb{N}\) is one less than the power \(n\).

Answer:

False

NCERT Exemplar Solutions Class 11 – Mathematics – Chapter 8: BINOMIAL THEOREM | Detailed Answers