What two numbers multiply to 286 and add up to 287?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 286 and add up to 287?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 286

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 286 multiply to 286 and add up to 287:

1 × 286 = 286
1 + 286 = 287

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

x² + 287x + 286 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 286)

To summarize, since 1 and 286 multiply to 286 and add up 287, you know that the following is true:

x² + 287x + 286 = (x + 1 ) (x + 286)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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