Expand and derive the planck occupanncy

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Homework Statement


The average energy of a harmonic oscillator is written using Boltzmann statistics as:

<ε> = (<n> +.5) = [itex]\frac{\sum_{n} ε_{n} exp \frac{-ε_{n}}{kt}}{\sum_{n} exp \frac{-ε_{n}}{kt}}[/itex]

Expand the expontentials and hence derive the Planck Occupancy
<n> = n(ω,T) =[itex]\frac{1}{exp\frac{h bar * ω}{kT}-1}[/itex]

Homework Equations


The two are above in part 1


The Attempt at a Solution


I have not been able to even start this question as I cannot understand what is meant by the expand the exponentials. Any help to start this off would be greatfull and as I have been stuck on this for nearly an hour.
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Basically, it is asking you to evaluate the sums.