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How many entries of Pascal's triangle are equal to 91?

 Apr 24, 2015

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Actually.....I believe 91 will appear  4 times in the triangle.....

The entries are  C(14,2), C (14,12), C(91,1)  and C(91,90)

I think that's it  !!!!

 

  

 Apr 25, 2015
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Haha sorry guys. Now a bunch of Pascal's Triangle questions. Not probability. But they WILL come back

 Apr 24, 2015
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Sorry guys I made a mistake in typing 

 Apr 24, 2015
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Just 2 (equal to 91 that is).

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 Apr 25, 2015
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How do you know that Alan?  I mean without looking at the triangle.

 

 Apr 25, 2015
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Actually.....I believe 91 will appear  4 times in the triangle.....

The entries are  C(14,2), C (14,12), C(91,1)  and C(91,90)

I think that's it  !!!!

 

  

CPhill Apr 25, 2015
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Chris is correct.  I didn't account for the C(91,1) and C(91,90) values.  

 

I actually wrote a little program that ran through values of n and, for each n, tried values of k from 1 to n to find those combinations for which C(n,k) = 91.  However, I stopped short of n = 91.  Silly!

 Apr 25, 2015
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what the heck is pascals triangle

 Apr 25, 2015
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Have a look at Melody's picture above.  Each row starts and ends with the number 1 and the other terms are constructed by adding together the two terms nearest to it in the row above.   The triangle goes on down forever, in principle.

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 Apr 25, 2015
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ohhhhhhhhhhhh i get it know

 Apr 26, 2015

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