What two numbers multiply to 972 and add up to 973?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 972 and add up to 973?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 972

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 972 multiply to 972 and add up to 973:

1 × 972 = 972
1 + 972 = 973

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

x² + 973x + 972 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 972)

To summarize, since 1 and 972 multiply to 972 and add up 973, you know that the following is true:

x² + 973x + 972 = (x + 1 ) (x + 972)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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