What two numbers multiply to 26 and add up to 27?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 26 and add up to 27?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 26

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 26 multiply to 26 and add up to 27:

1 × 26 = 26
1 + 26 = 27

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

x² + 27x + 26 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 26)

To summarize, since 1 and 26 multiply to 26 and add up 27, you know that the following is true:

x² + 27x + 26 = (x + 1 ) (x + 26)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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