What two numbers multiply to 172 and add up to 173?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 172 and add up to 173?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 172

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 172 multiply to 172 and add up to 173:

1 × 172 = 172
1 + 172 = 173

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

x² + 173x + 172 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 172)

To summarize, since 1 and 172 multiply to 172 and add up 173, you know that the following is true:

x² + 173x + 172 = (x + 1 ) (x + 172)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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