What two numbers multiply to 854 and add up to 429?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 854 and add up to 429?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 427

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 427 multiply to 854 and add up to 429:

2 × 427 = 854
2 + 427 = 429

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

x² + 429x + 854 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 427)

To summarize, since 2 and 427 multiply to 854 and add up 429, you know that the following is true:

x² + 429x + 854 = (x + 2 ) (x + 427)

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