What two numbers multiply to 72 and add up to 38?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 72 and add up to 38?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 36

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 36 multiply to 72 and add up to 38:

2 × 36 = 72
2 + 36 = 38

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

x² + 38x + 72 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 36)

To summarize, since 2 and 36 multiply to 72 and add up 38, you know that the following is true:

x² + 38x + 72 = (x + 2 ) (x + 36)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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