What two numbers multiply to 157 and add up to 158?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 157 and add up to 158?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 157

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 157 multiply to 157 and add up to 158:

1 × 157 = 157
1 + 157 = 158

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

x² + 158x + 157 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 157)

To summarize, since 1 and 157 multiply to 157 and add up 158, you know that the following is true:

x² + 158x + 157 = (x + 1 ) (x + 157)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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