Quick Square

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Quick Square

A mathematical trick

Did you know that there is a quick way of squaring a two digit number which ends in 5?
Just multiply the first digit by that number plus one.... stick a 25 after your product and there's your answer .... simple ?

Example:

Q. What is 35 squared?
A. 3x4=12
.....now stick on the 25
...........the answer is 1225

Barry's Response - It even seems to work with three digit numbers (using the first two digit to make a two digit number) and plain old 5, using 0 as the first digit.

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Apr 16, 2009
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I really wonder of this Techniques
by: Rajesh

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I understood that it is very useful can understand anyone easily so there several formulas if you follow but if you follow these you will find answers with in short time.

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Apr 16, 2009
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Awesome
by: Anonymous

Haha, awesome! I didn't know about that trick. I wish we got taught little tricks like that in all my math classes in college.

Apr 15, 2009
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by: cangel

This is great. After all my years of teaching I was not aware of this little help. It just shows there is always something new to learn. And with sites like yours I can keep learning. I looked at the site about metric conversion and I am going to use it in my tutoring. Please keep up the good work. I have added your site to my favorites for browsing in the future. Thank you.

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