What two numbers multiply to 501 and add up to 502?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 501 and add up to 502?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 501

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 501 multiply to 501 and add up to 502:

1 × 501 = 501
1 + 501 = 502

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

x² + 502x + 501 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 501)

To summarize, since 1 and 501 multiply to 501 and add up 502, you know that the following is true:

x² + 502x + 501 = (x + 1 ) (x + 501)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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