As you probably know, the square of a number is a number multiplied by itself. For example, the square of 9 is 9 x 9 = 81.
This post is made to enable you to easily calculate the square of any two-digit or three-digit (or higher) number.
That method is especially simple when the number ends in 5, so let’s do that trick now.
To square a two-digit number that ends in 5, you need to remember only two things.
1. The answer begins by multiplying the first digit by the next higher digit.
2. The answer ends in 25.
For example, to square the number 35, we simply multiply the first digit (3) by the next higher digit (4), then attach 25.
Since 3 x 4 = 12, the answer is 1225.
Therefore, 35x35 = 1225.
Our steps can be illustrated this way:
How about the square of 85?
Since 8 x 9 = 72,
we immediately get 85 x 85 = 7225.
Similarly we can calculate the following squares
- 15 x 15 = 225
- 25 x 25 = 625
- 35 x 35 = 1225
- 45 x 45 = 2025
- 55 x 55 = 3025
- 65 x 65 = 4225
- 75 x 75 = 5625
- 85 x 85 = 7225
- 95 x 95 = 9025
For example: 115 x 115 = ?
Since 11 x 12 = 132
So the answer would be = 13225
Therefore 115 x 115 = 13225.
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