What two numbers multiply to 578 and add up to 291?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 578 and add up to 291?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 289

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 289 multiply to 578 and add up to 291:

2 × 289 = 578
2 + 289 = 291

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

x² + 291x + 578 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 289)

To summarize, since 2 and 289 multiply to 578 and add up 291, you know that the following is true:

x² + 291x + 578 = (x + 2 ) (x + 289)

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