What two numbers multiply to 424 and add up to 61?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 424 and add up to 61?"

The answer to your question is:

8 and 53

Below we illustrate and prove that 8 and 53 multiply to 424 and add up to 61:

8 × 53 = 424
8 + 53 = 61

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

x² + 61x + 424 = 0

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

(x + 8 ) (x + 53)

To summarize, since 8 and 53 multiply to 424 and add up 61, you know that the following is true:

x² + 61x + 424 = (x + 8 ) (x + 53)

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