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Generating Functions help

I'm not quite sure how to go from the reciprocal function to the coefficient of $x^{100}$; could anyone help me out?

I have an exam on this in 2 days, and I'm still extremely confused! Any help would be greatly appreciated. A friend suggested that i break things down into partial fractions, but I still don't see how to make the jump