[prasannanamuduri]

find the middle term of the expansion of (x/y + y/x) to the power of 8

[Elisha Grey]

(x/y)**4 (y/x)**4 (8x7x6x5)/(4x3x2x1) = 70

[Capuchin]

Although I hate to agree with someone who does work for someone over pointing them in the right direction, I believe that Elisha is right here.

If you look at Pascal's triangle, you will see that on the 9th row from the top, in the center is 70. (we ignore the top row for expansion)

Pascal's triangle follows the same pattern as the coefficients for binomial expansion.

The (x/y)^4(y/x)^4 is the easy part to work out.

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