What two numbers multiply to 259 and add up to 260?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 259 and add up to 260?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 259

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 259 multiply to 259 and add up to 260:

1 × 259 = 259
1 + 259 = 260

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

x² + 260x + 259 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 259)

To summarize, since 1 and 259 multiply to 259 and add up 260, you know that the following is true:

x² + 260x + 259 = (x + 1 ) (x + 259)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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