What two numbers multiply to 342 and add up to 173?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 342 and add up to 173?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 171

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 171 multiply to 342 and add up to 173:

2 × 171 = 342
2 + 171 = 173

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

x² + 173x + 342 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 171)

To summarize, since 2 and 171 multiply to 342 and add up 173, you know that the following is true:

x² + 173x + 342 = (x + 2 ) (x + 171)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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