What two numbers multiply to 239 and add up to 240?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 239 and add up to 240?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 239

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 239 multiply to 239 and add up to 240:

1 × 239 = 239
1 + 239 = 240

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

x² + 240x + 239 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 239)

To summarize, since 1 and 239 multiply to 239 and add up 240, you know that the following is true:

x² + 240x + 239 = (x + 1 ) (x + 239)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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