What two numbers multiply to 790 and add up to 397?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 790 and add up to 397?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 395

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 395 multiply to 790 and add up to 397:

2 × 395 = 790
2 + 395 = 397

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

x² + 397x + 790 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 395)

To summarize, since 2 and 395 multiply to 790 and add up 397, you know that the following is true:

x² + 397x + 790 = (x + 2 ) (x + 395)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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