What two numbers multiply to 284 and add up to 285?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 284 and add up to 285?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 284

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 284 multiply to 284 and add up to 285:

1 × 284 = 284
1 + 284 = 285

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

x² + 285x + 284 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 284)

To summarize, since 1 and 284 multiply to 284 and add up 285, you know that the following is true:

x² + 285x + 284 = (x + 1 ) (x + 284)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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