What two numbers multiply to 318 and add up to 161?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 318 and add up to 161?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 159

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 159 multiply to 318 and add up to 161:

2 × 159 = 318
2 + 159 = 161

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

x² + 161x + 318 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 159)

To summarize, since 2 and 159 multiply to 318 and add up 161, you know that the following is true:

x² + 161x + 318 = (x + 2 ) (x + 159)

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