What two numbers multiply to 170 and add up to 87?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 170 and add up to 87?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 85

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 85 multiply to 170 and add up to 87:

2 × 85 = 170
2 + 85 = 87

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

x² + 87x + 170 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 85)

To summarize, since 2 and 85 multiply to 170 and add up 87, you know that the following is true:

x² + 87x + 170 = (x + 2 ) (x + 85)

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