What two numbers multiply to 502 and add up to 503?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 502 and add up to 503?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 502

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 502 multiply to 502 and add up to 503:

1 × 502 = 502
1 + 502 = 503

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

x² + 503x + 502 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 502)

To summarize, since 1 and 502 multiply to 502 and add up 503, you know that the following is true:

x² + 503x + 502 = (x + 1 ) (x + 502)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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