What two numbers multiply to 486 and add up to 165?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 486 and add up to 165?"

The answer to your question is:

3 and 162

Below we illustrate and prove that 3 and 162 multiply to 486 and add up to 165:

3 × 162 = 486
3 + 162 = 165

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

x² + 165x + 486 = 0

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

(x + 3 ) (x + 162)

To summarize, since 3 and 162 multiply to 486 and add up 165, you know that the following is true:

x² + 165x + 486 = (x + 3 ) (x + 162)

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