What two numbers multiply to 73 and add up to 74?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 73 and add up to 74?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 73

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 73 multiply to 73 and add up to 74:

1 × 73 = 73
1 + 73 = 74

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

x² + 74x + 73 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 73)

To summarize, since 1 and 73 multiply to 73 and add up 74, you know that the following is true:

x² + 74x + 73 = (x + 1 ) (x + 73)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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