What two numbers multiply to 158 and add up to 159?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 158 and add up to 159?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 158

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 158 multiply to 158 and add up to 159:

1 × 158 = 158
1 + 158 = 159

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

x² + 159x + 158 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 158)

To summarize, since 1 and 158 multiply to 158 and add up 159, you know that the following is true:

x² + 159x + 158 = (x + 1 ) (x + 158)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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