Find $t$ if the expansion of the product of $x^3$ and $x^2 + tx$ has no $x^2$ term.
Let's multiply everything out and see what we have.
We get
\(x^3(x^2+tx)\\ x^5+x^4t\)
As shown, there is not x^2 term.
This means that t can pretty much be anything as long as it doesn't contain x^-2
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