What two numbers multiply to 85 and add up to 86?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 85 and add up to 86?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 85

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 85 multiply to 85 and add up to 86:

1 × 85 = 85
1 + 85 = 86

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

x² + 86x + 85 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 85)

To summarize, since 1 and 85 multiply to 85 and add up 86, you know that the following is true:

x² + 86x + 85 = (x + 1 ) (x + 85)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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