What two numbers multiply to 6 and add up to 7?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 6 and add up to 7?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 6

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 6 multiply to 6 and add up to 7:

1 × 6 = 6
1 + 6 = 7

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

x² + 7x + 6 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 6)

To summarize, since 1 and 6 multiply to 6 and add up 7, you know that the following is true:

x² + 7x + 6 = (x + 1 ) (x + 6)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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