What two numbers multiply to 555 and add up to 556?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 555 and add up to 556?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 555

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 555 multiply to 555 and add up to 556:

1 × 555 = 555
1 + 555 = 556

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

x² + 556x + 555 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 555)

To summarize, since 1 and 555 multiply to 555 and add up 556, you know that the following is true:

x² + 556x + 555 = (x + 1 ) (x + 555)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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