What two numbers multiply to 292 and add up to 148?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 292 and add up to 148?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 146

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 146 multiply to 292 and add up to 148:

2 × 146 = 292
2 + 146 = 148

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

x² + 148x + 292 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 146)

To summarize, since 2 and 146 multiply to 292 and add up 148, you know that the following is true:

x² + 148x + 292 = (x + 2 ) (x + 146)

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