Dec
11

My Dry-Erase Board And A Math Trick!

By Sydney


How to square a number that ends in 5. Without a calculator.

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25 Comments

1

That will come in very useful in my Physics class.

2

yea..if u read the info and listened he said that it’s only for numbers that end in 5

3

but the square of 12 is 144 while in ur way is 24 is that onnly if the last number is 5??? nice try!!”=)

4

nice vid, the sound quality wasn’t the greatest though :P

5

does 777 edd with 5?

6

ok i take that back..777×777 dosent work…..why dont you get high off that dry erase marker you virgin for life

7

wow thats awsome

8

Hey, thanks! I’d never seen it proven before.

9

Proof for this trick…

ab * ac where ab & ac are two-digit numbers, and b+c=10.

In reality, (10a+b)(10a+c) = 100a^2+10ac+10ab+bc
Some reverse distributing, 10a(10a+c+b)+bc
Since b+c=10 and b+c=c+b, then 10a(10a+c+b)+bc = 10a(10a+10)+bc = 100a(a+1)+bc.

This trick is only a corollary of that general rule the gentleman instructed upon.

10

it is only with the 5 at the end? i tried 72*72

11

it works for any double digit numbers, with the 1st digits being the same and the 2nd digits summing up to 10.
ie. 43×47, just multiply 1st digit by next higher (in this case 5, so 4×5=20), and write the product of the last 2 digits (in this case 3×7=21)
and there you have it,
43×47=2021

12

hmmm… not very interesting… much better the hot chicks from LikeHerAss.com_

13

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14

I see I’m not the only one who thinks so. Wish I could write with cool flourishes like that.

Oh, nice math trick, too. :o )

15

well, does 777 end in 5?

16

Awesome!!!

17

fuck off u twat, i knew this years ago
it indian vedic math, stop stealing our stuff u honkey

18

Try 777×777 it does not work guys!

19

Ummm this only works with the last digit being 5

20

im going to tell my math mate about that, he’ll love it

21
guywh0likscapncrunch
December 11th, 2009 at 8:04 pm

nice. i’ll use that for the number sense test

22

Wo….your hand writing is amazing!

23

Wow… Cool..I love math tricks.. Hey, I like your handwriting style. Mine is like chicken scratches!

24

That was a good one.

25

Nice, Have you ever heard of the rule of 72? That one can make you wealthy.

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