What two numbers multiply to 388 and add up to 196?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 388 and add up to 196?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 194

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 194 multiply to 388 and add up to 196:

2 × 194 = 388
2 + 194 = 196

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

x² + 196x + 388 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 194)

To summarize, since 2 and 194 multiply to 388 and add up 196, you know that the following is true:

x² + 196x + 388 = (x + 2 ) (x + 194)

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