What two numbers multiply to 796 and add up to 797?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 796 and add up to 797?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 796

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 796 multiply to 796 and add up to 797:

1 × 796 = 796
1 + 796 = 797

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

x² + 797x + 796 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 796)

To summarize, since 1 and 796 multiply to 796 and add up 797, you know that the following is true:

x² + 797x + 796 = (x + 1 ) (x + 796)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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