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explains this a little differently:

Take the number you are multiplying 9 by and subtract one. That
number is the first number in the solution.
Then subtract that number from nine. That number is the second
number of the solution.
Examples:
4 * 9 = 36
4-1=3
9-3=6
solution = 36
8 * 9 = 72
8-1=7
9-7=2
solution = 72
5 * 9 = 45
5-1=4
9-4=5
solution = 45
Take the one-digit number you are multipling by nine, and insert a zero
to its right. Then subtract the original number from it.
For example: if the problem is 9 * 6, insert a zero to the right of the six,
then subtract six:
9 * 6 = 60 - 6 = 54
Multiplying a 2-digit number by 11
A tip sent in by Bill Eldridge: Simply add the first and second digits and
place the result between them.
Here's an example using 24 as the 2-digit number to be multiplied by 11:
2 + 4 = 6 so 24 11 = 264.
This can be done using any 2-digit number. (If the sum is 10 or greater,
don't forget to carry the one.)
Multiplying any number by 11
Lonnie Dennis II writes in:
Let's say, for example, you wanted to multiply 54321 by 11. First, let's
look at the problem the long way...
54321
x 11

54321
+ 543210

= 597531
Now let's look at the easy way...
11 54321
= 5 4+5 4+3 3+2 2+1 1
= 597531
Do you see the pattern? In a way, you're simply adding the digit to
whatever comes before it.
But you must work from right to left. The reason I work from right to left
is that if the numbers, when added together, sum to more than 9, then
you have something to carry over.
Let's look at another example...
11 9527136
Well, we know that 6 will be the last number in the answer. So the
answer now is
???????6.
Calculate the tens place: 6+3=9, so now we know that the product has
the form
??????96.
3+1=4, so now we know that the product has the form
?????496.
1+7=8, so
????8496.
7+2=9, so
???98496.
2+5=7, so
??798496.
5+9=14.
Here's where carrying digits comes in: we fill in the hundred thousands
place with the ones digit of the sum 5+9, and our product has the form
?4798496.
We will carry the extra 10 over to the next (and final) place.
9+0=9, but we need to add the one carried from the previous sum:
9+0+1=10.
So the product is 104798496.

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