What two numbers multiply to 171 and add up to 172?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 171 and add up to 172?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 171

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 171 multiply to 171 and add up to 172:

1 × 171 = 171
1 + 171 = 172

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

x² + 172x + 171 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 171)

To summarize, since 1 and 171 multiply to 171 and add up 172, you know that the following is true:

x² + 172x + 171 = (x + 1 ) (x + 171)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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