What two numbers multiply to 56 and add up to 57?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 56 and add up to 57?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 56

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 56 multiply to 56 and add up to 57:

1 × 56 = 56
1 + 56 = 57

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

x² + 57x + 56 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 56)

To summarize, since 1 and 56 multiply to 56 and add up 57, you know that the following is true:

x² + 57x + 56 = (x + 1 ) (x + 56)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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