What two numbers multiply to 32 and add up to 12?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 32 and add up to 12?"

The answer to your question is:

4 and 8

Below we illustrate and prove that 4 and 8 multiply to 32 and add up to 12:

4 × 8 = 32
4 + 8 = 12

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

x² + 12x + 32 = 0

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

(x + 4 ) (x + 8)

To summarize, since 4 and 8 multiply to 32 and add up 12, you know that the following is true:

x² + 12x + 32 = (x + 4 ) (x + 8)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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