What two numbers multiply to 498 and add up to 499?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 498 and add up to 499?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 498

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 498 multiply to 498 and add up to 499:

1 × 498 = 498
1 + 498 = 499

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

x² + 499x + 498 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 498)

To summarize, since 1 and 498 multiply to 498 and add up 499, you know that the following is true:

x² + 499x + 498 = (x + 1 ) (x + 498)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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