What two numbers multiply to 550 and add up to 551?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 550 and add up to 551?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 550

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 550 multiply to 550 and add up to 551:

1 × 550 = 550
1 + 550 = 551

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

x² + 551x + 550 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 550)

To summarize, since 1 and 550 multiply to 550 and add up 551, you know that the following is true:

x² + 551x + 550 = (x + 1 ) (x + 550)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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