What two numbers multiply to 278 and add up to 279?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 278 and add up to 279?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 278

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 278 multiply to 278 and add up to 279:

1 × 278 = 278
1 + 278 = 279

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

x² + 279x + 278 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 278)

To summarize, since 1 and 278 multiply to 278 and add up 279, you know that the following is true:

x² + 279x + 278 = (x + 1 ) (x + 278)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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