What two numbers multiply to 88 and add up to 46?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 88 and add up to 46?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 44

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 44 multiply to 88 and add up to 46:

2 × 44 = 88
2 + 44 = 46

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

x² + 46x + 88 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 44)

To summarize, since 2 and 44 multiply to 88 and add up 46, you know that the following is true:

x² + 46x + 88 = (x + 2 ) (x + 44)

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