Adding up the sums of the 6 rows, we get 1 2 4 8 16 32
As you may be able to tell, all numbers here multiply by 2 to get to the next number - 1*2=2, 2*2=4, etc.. That means that this is a geometric sequence, or the first term (t₁) multiplied by the ratio between each number (2 in our case) to the power of (n-1), with n being the number in the sequence that we want (7 in this case). Thus, we have 1*(2⁷⁻¹)=2⁶=64 as the sum of the terms in the seventh sequence. Testing this out, we find 7 choose 0, 7 choose 1, etc. - I'll find the first and second to last coefficients using the formula [tex] \left[\begin{array}{ccc}x\\y\end{array}\right] = \frac{x!}{(x-y)!y!} [/tex] [tex] \left[\begin{array}{ccc}7\\0\end{array}\right] = \frac{7!}{(7-0)!0!}
= \frac{7*6*5*4*3*2*1}{7*6*5*4*3*2*1*1}
=1[/tex] [tex] \left[\begin{array}{ccc}7\\6\end{array}\right] = \frac{7!}{(7-6)!6!} = \frac{7*6*5*4*3*2*1}{6*5*4*3*2*1*1} =7[/tex]
I challenge you to do the rest (if you don't already have the triangle)! Our coefficients in the 7th row are as follows: 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 Adding them up, we get 64, so our conjecture was right!