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What can multiply to give you 80 but add up to give you 11

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There are no real numbers that can do that job.

There's a pair of complex numbers that can do it.
They are

5.5 + i4.97
and
5.5 - i4.97 .

' i ' = the imaginary unit = √(-1)

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