How Many Cases We Have for Multiset Combinatorics Confined in Total Number

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I'd like to count the following casese:

We have a set. We have $n$ different elements. But we can only contain total 50 elements in a set. Moreover, this set is a multi-set, i.e., we can select a element duplicatively in a constraint of 50 total elements.

So how many cases we have in total?

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i will use Generating function to solve it

the problem asks for

coefficient of $x^{50}$ in expansion of $(1+x+x^2+x^3+.....)^{n}$

coefficient of $x^{50}$ in expansion of $\dfrac{1}{({1-x})^n}=(1-x)^{-n}$

we know, coff. of $x^{r}$ in expansion of $(1-x)^{-n}=^{n+r-1}C_{r} \ =\ ^{n+r-1}C_{n-1}$

so,

coefficient of $x^{50}$ in expansion of $(1-x)^{-n}=^{n+49}C_{50}\ =\ ^{n+49}C_{n-1}$