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How to do 756 x 675 mentally?
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How to do 756 x 675 mentally?
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Hello!
How can you do e.g. 756 x 675 mentally?
Any good trick?
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Re: How to do 756 x 675 mentally?
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It's roughly 700 *800 which is 560,000.
756 is about 1/16 short of 800 which is about 7% less
675 is 25 / 700 short
So that's 27/7 % low- call it 4%
so the product will be about 11% less than 560000
That's about 500,000
My calculator confirms that's within 3% of the right answer.
That's probably good enough for a lot of things
If not I can get a calculator or a slide rule or a pencil + paper.
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Re: How to do 756 x 675 mentally?
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How you do it depends on what you need the answer for, if it is for something important use a written form or a calculator a quick assessment mentally would be that it is 3/4 of 675000 so subtract 170000 from 675000 which is 505000 as against the correct value of 510300 98.96% of the correct value
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Re: How to do 756 x 675 mentally?
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How strange that slide rules hang around my son when he joined technical school in 1973 was asked to provide a slide rule long after cheap calculators became available.
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