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Complement Multiplication

COMPLEMENT MULTIPLICATION

School children find it difficult to compute or perform the multiplication such as 97 x 95.
In mathematics the term COMPLEMENT is used to perform multiplication.

[Complement of a number is the amount by which that number is less than 100.]

Find 97 x 95.
The complement of 97 is 3. The complement of 95 is 5.

(a) Subtract the complement of one of the numbers from the other number.
97 - 5 = 92 or 95 - 3 = 92.
These are the first two digits of your product.

(b) Multiply the complements of the two numbers. 5 x 3 = 15
These are the last two digits of your final product.

(c) Combine the two numbers to get your answer. 97 x 95 = 9215
This method of shortcut works under one condition.

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Re: Complement Multiplication

The trick you have given to solve the multiplication problem of such a big number is really excellent. I like this trick very much, I have one question that can it will also work in multiplication of three digit number.