What two numbers multiply to 159 and add up to 160?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 159 and add up to 160?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 159

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 159 multiply to 159 and add up to 160:

1 × 159 = 159
1 + 159 = 160

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

x² + 160x + 159 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 159)

To summarize, since 1 and 159 multiply to 159 and add up 160, you know that the following is true:

x² + 160x + 159 = (x + 1 ) (x + 159)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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