Calculate the expansion of  $(x+y+z)^n$ The question that I have to solve is an answer on the question "How many terms are in the expansion?".
Depending on how you define "term" you can become two different formulas to calculate the terms in the expansion of $(x+y+z)^n$.
Working with binomial coefficients I found that the general relation is $\binom{n+2}{n}$. However I'm having some difficulty providing proof for my statement.
The other way of seeing "term" is just simply as the amount of combinations you can take out of $(x+y+z)^n$ which would result into $3^n$.
Depending on what is the right interpretation, how can I provide proof for it?

It can never be $3^n$. As you can see for $(a+b)^n$ contains just $n+1$ terms. Note that we have to keep the sum of powers in each of the combinations of $x,y,z$ to $n$, so it will be reduced. 
Now replace $a$ and $b$ by $x$ and $(y+z)$ respectively. So total number of terms should be $1+2+3+\cdots+(n+1)=\dfrac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}$.
