What two numbers multiply to 166 and add up to 85?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 166 and add up to 85?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 83

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 83 multiply to 166 and add up to 85:

2 × 83 = 166
2 + 83 = 85

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

x² + 85x + 166 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 83)

To summarize, since 2 and 83 multiply to 166 and add up 85, you know that the following is true:

x² + 85x + 166 = (x + 2 ) (x + 83)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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