What two numbers multiply to 162 and add up to 83?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 162 and add up to 83?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 81

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 81 multiply to 162 and add up to 83:

2 × 81 = 162
2 + 81 = 83

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

x² + 83x + 162 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 81)

To summarize, since 2 and 81 multiply to 162 and add up 83, you know that the following is true:

x² + 83x + 162 = (x + 2 ) (x + 81)

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