What two numbers multiply to 156 and add up to 157?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 156 and add up to 157?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 156

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 156 multiply to 156 and add up to 157:

1 × 156 = 156
1 + 156 = 157

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

x² + 157x + 156 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 156)

To summarize, since 1 and 156 multiply to 156 and add up 157, you know that the following is true:

x² + 157x + 156 = (x + 1 ) (x + 156)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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