What two numbers multiply to 836 and add up to 420?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 836 and add up to 420?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 418

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 418 multiply to 836 and add up to 420:

2 × 418 = 836
2 + 418 = 420

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

x² + 420x + 836 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 418)

To summarize, since 2 and 418 multiply to 836 and add up 420, you know that the following is true:

x² + 420x + 836 = (x + 2 ) (x + 418)

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