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by vidarh 750 days ago
You can decompose it further. 27 times 7 is 20 times 7 plus 7 times 7.

You can also multiply by 100 and 30 and subtract the latter, and then another 27.

In general the method is just about finding which calculations are easy enough to you to decompose the operations into.