What two numbers multiply to 178 and add up to 179?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 178 and add up to 179?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 178

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 178 multiply to 178 and add up to 179:

1 × 178 = 178
1 + 178 = 179

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

x² + 179x + 178 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 178)

To summarize, since 1 and 178 multiply to 178 and add up 179, you know that the following is true:

x² + 179x + 178 = (x + 1 ) (x + 178)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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