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It's easy to evalute (a + b + c)2.....

Let x = (a + b)....then expand (x + c)2 as you would normally in the case of binomial expansion......which is :

(x + c)2 = x2 + c2 + 2xc ......(1)

Now, replace x with (a + b) in (1).....then it becomes.......

(a + b)2 + c2 + 2.(a + b).c .....(2)

Just a little more to be done here ( now we expand (2) in the last step)........

a2 + b2 + 2ab + c2 + 2ac + 2bc (rearranging this we get)

a2 + b2 + c2 + 2ab + 2bc + 2ac .

this happens to be the expansion for (a + b = c)2

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