What two numbers multiply to 253 and add up to 254?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 253 and add up to 254?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 253

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 253 multiply to 253 and add up to 254:

1 × 253 = 253
1 + 253 = 254

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

x² + 254x + 253 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 253)

To summarize, since 1 and 253 multiply to 253 and add up 254, you know that the following is true:

x² + 254x + 253 = (x + 1 ) (x + 253)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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