What two numbers multiply to 502 and add up to 253?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 502 and add up to 253?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 251

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 251 multiply to 502 and add up to 253:

2 × 251 = 502
2 + 251 = 253

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

x² + 253x + 502 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 251)

To summarize, since 2 and 251 multiply to 502 and add up 253, you know that the following is true:

x² + 253x + 502 = (x + 2 ) (x + 251)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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