Woah! Never touched summation before! I did some reasearch from this website: https://medium.com/i-math/the-binomial-theorem-explained-6464f41e5268
Let us subsitute in known values
1. (x+1)n=n∑k=0(nk)xn−k1k
2. (x+1)n=n∑k=0(nk)xn−k
I realized that any expansion of (x + 1)n will have coefficients in the nth row in pascal's triangle. I think that means the variable is x(n-k).
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So in other words I have no idea but for some reason x(n-k) is working.