We distinguish between two cases for an admissible 50-tuple a1,a2,…,a50.
a) If no ai is equal to 101 then a1,a2,…,a50 contains exactly one number from every pair (i,101−i), 1≤i≤50. Hence there are 250 choices for a1,a2,…,a50, and each respective product a1a2⋯a50 appears exactly once in the expansion of the product
P=(1+100)(2+99)⋯(50+51)=10150.
b) If one of the ai is 101 then the remaining ones come from 49 different pairs (i,101−i), 1≤i≤50. Suppose that pair (1,100) is not present. There are 249 such products a1a2⋯a50, the summands in the expansion of the P1=101(2+99)⋯(50+51)=10150. Analogously if the non-represented pair is (2,99), (3,98), \dots, (50,51) the respective products appear once in the expansions of
P2\multicolumn2l………………………………………P50=(1+100)101(3+98)⋯(50+51)=10150, P3=(1+100)(2+99)⋯(49+52)101=10150.=(1+100)(2+99)101⋯(50+51)=10150,
By a) and b) the sum in question is 10150+50⋅10150=51⋅10150.