What two numbers multiply to 261 and add up to 262?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 261 and add up to 262?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 261

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 261 multiply to 261 and add up to 262:

1 × 261 = 261
1 + 261 = 262

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

x² + 262x + 261 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 261)

To summarize, since 1 and 261 multiply to 261 and add up 262, you know that the following is true:

x² + 262x + 261 = (x + 1 ) (x + 261)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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