What two numbers multiply to 12 and add up to 8?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 12 and add up to 8?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 6

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 6 multiply to 12 and add up to 8:

2 × 6 = 12
2 + 6 = 8

Are you asking because you are trying to figure out how to factor the following quadratic equation?

x² + 8x + 12 = 0

If so, the solution to factor the quadratic equation above is:

(x + 2 ) (x + 6)

To summarize, since 2 and 6 multiply to 12 and add up 8, you know that the following is true:

x² + 8x + 12 = (x + 2 ) (x + 6)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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