What two numbers multiply to 286 and add up to 145?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 286 and add up to 145?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 143

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 143 multiply to 286 and add up to 145:

2 × 143 = 286
2 + 143 = 145

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

x² + 145x + 286 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 143)

To summarize, since 2 and 143 multiply to 286 and add up 145, you know that the following is true:

x² + 145x + 286 = (x + 2 ) (x + 143)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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