CAIE P3 2006 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleP3 (Pure Mathematics 3)
Year2006
SessionNovember
TopicGeneralised Binomial Theorem
TypeExpansion with algebraic manipulation

5
  1. Simplify \(( \sqrt { } ( 1 + x ) + \sqrt { } ( 1 - x ) ) ( \sqrt { } ( 1 + x ) - \sqrt { } ( 1 - x ) )\), showing your working, and deduce that $$\frac { 1 } { \sqrt { } ( 1 + x ) + \sqrt { } ( 1 - x ) } = \frac { \sqrt { } ( 1 + x ) - \sqrt { } ( 1 - x ) } { 2 x }$$
  2. Using this result, or otherwise, obtain the expansion of $$\frac { 1 } { \sqrt { } ( 1 + x ) + \sqrt { } ( 1 - x ) }$$ in ascending powers of \(x\), up to and including the term in \(x ^ { 2 }\).