What two numbers multiply to 392 and add up to 198?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 392 and add up to 198?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 196

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 196 multiply to 392 and add up to 198:

2 × 196 = 392
2 + 196 = 198

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

x² + 198x + 392 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 196)

To summarize, since 2 and 196 multiply to 392 and add up 198, you know that the following is true:

x² + 198x + 392 = (x + 2 ) (x + 196)

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