What two numbers multiply to 86 and add up to 45?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 86 and add up to 45?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 43

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 43 multiply to 86 and add up to 45:

2 × 43 = 86
2 + 43 = 45

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

x² + 45x + 86 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 43)

To summarize, since 2 and 43 multiply to 86 and add up 45, you know that the following is true:

x² + 45x + 86 = (x + 2 ) (x + 43)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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