The video masterfully simplifies complex power sums by highlighting the structural elegance of Newton's Sums. It is a concise and effective demonstration of how systematic recurrence can replace tedious algebraic expansion.
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This Question Looks Hard...But Actually It's Easy! | Newtons Sum
Added:Let's get it started is straight away by writing this is equation one and here we'll write equation two. Let's say required expression is E.
I will simplify E first. So, we can write E will be X + Y + X cube over Y square + Y cube over X square.
Now, in place of X + Y we will write four because of equation number one.
But, here we have X cube over Y square + Y cube over X square. So, let's convert our denominators into common denominator. We need to multiply here with X square.
So, we need to multiply here with Y square.
Now, we'll be writing E equal to 4 + in numerator X cube * X square X power five Y cube * Y square Y power five over X square Y square, which we'll be writing XY whole square because we have equation two also.
So, in place of XY we'll be writing minus two.
So, 4 + X power five + Y power five over minus two whole square.
Minus two whole square is plus four.
We will get 4 + X power five + Y power five over four.
This is our target expression. First, we will find X power five + Y power five.
Then, we will be able to find E.
I'll be using Newton's sum or recurrence formula method.
So, let us think about one quadratic equation whose roots are x + y. Then here we have sum of roots.
x * y = -2. This is product of roots.
Let's write quadratic equation in variable t whose roots are x and y. Then we can write t squared minus sum of roots 4 t plus product of roots minus 2 equal to 0.
We'll add 4t plus 2 to both sides and we can write t squared equal to 4t plus 2.
Now we have to consider sum sn will be equal to x power n plus y power n.
From our quadratic equation t squared equal to 4t plus 2 we can write sn equal to 4 times s n minus 1 plus 2 times s n minus 2.
Holds true for n greater than or equal to 2. So, we have sn over here and we have sum sn over here.
Now I will put n equal to 0.
So, I will be able to get s0 which will be equal to x power 0 plus y power 0, 1 plus 1, 2.
Now I will put n equal to 1.
So, we will get s1 will be equal to x power 1 plus y power 1 which will be x plus y as per equation one, value is four.
In the same way, if I will put n equal to five, we are going to get s five, which will be equal to x power five plus y power five.
Now, we will write our required expression in terms of s five.
It was four plus x power five plus y power five over four.
So, required expression e can be written in terms of s five, four plus s five over four.
So, we have to find s five from here.
Now, I will put n equal to two over here.
So, we will get s two equal to four s one plus two s zero.
We have s one and s zero over here. s one is four, s zero is two.
So, we will write four times four plus two times two.
Will be equal to 16 plus four.
So, s two is 20.
Now, we have s zero two, s one four, s two 20. Let me write here.
s zero two s one four s two 20.
And we have general s n equal to four times s n minus one plus two times s n minus two.
Now, we will plug in n equal to three.
And we will get s three.
Which will be four times s two plus two times s one.
We have S2 20 and we have S1 4.
So, we can easily calculate S3 from here. 4 * 20 + 2 * 4.
4 * 20 is 80.
2 * 4 is 8.
So, we have S3 88.
Now, we have to put n equal to 4.
So, let me write here n equal to 4.
Sn is 4 * Sn - 1 + 2 * Sn - 2.
We will get S4 4 * S3 + 2 * S2.
S2 is 20. Let me write here S0 is 2.
S1 is 4.
S2 is 20.
S3 is 88.
And we have to calculate S4. We will write here 4 * 88 + 2 * S2. It is 20.
4 * 88 is 352 + 40.
352 + 40 is 392.
Now, we have S4 also.
Now, we have to calculate S5, which is required as per our expression.
Now, I will put over here n equal to 5 to get the value of S5, which will be equal to 4 * S4 + 2 * S3.
S4 is 392. We will write 4 * 392 + 2 * S3. S3 is 88.
4 * 392 is 1,568.
Plus 2 * 88 is 176.
We'll add both the numbers to get the value of S5. It is 1,744.
S5 is known.
Now, we will calculate required expression E.
E is 4 + S5 over 4.
And S5 is 1744.
Let's put 4 + 1744 over 4.
So, we'll write here 4 + 436.
4 + 436 will be 440.
So, our required expression would be equal to 440 using Newton's sums or recurrence relationship.
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