What two numbers multiply to 971 and add up to 972?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 971 and add up to 972?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 971

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 971 multiply to 971 and add up to 972:

1 × 971 = 971
1 + 971 = 972

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

x² + 972x + 971 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 971)

To summarize, since 1 and 971 multiply to 971 and add up 972, you know that the following is true:

x² + 972x + 971 = (x + 1 ) (x + 971)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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