What two numbers multiply to 557 and add up to 558?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 557 and add up to 558?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 557

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 557 multiply to 557 and add up to 558:

1 × 557 = 557
1 + 557 = 558

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

x² + 558x + 557 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 557)

To summarize, since 1 and 557 multiply to 557 and add up 558, you know that the following is true:

x² + 558x + 557 = (x + 1 ) (x + 557)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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