What two numbers multiply to 554 and add up to 279?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 554 and add up to 279?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 277

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 277 multiply to 554 and add up to 279:

2 × 277 = 554
2 + 277 = 279

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

x² + 279x + 554 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 277)

To summarize, since 2 and 277 multiply to 554 and add up 279, you know that the following is true:

x² + 279x + 554 = (x + 2 ) (x + 277)

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