What two numbers multiply to 588 and add up to 296?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 588 and add up to 296?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 294

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 294 multiply to 588 and add up to 296:

2 × 294 = 588
2 + 294 = 296

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

x² + 296x + 588 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 294)

To summarize, since 2 and 294 multiply to 588 and add up 296, you know that the following is true:

x² + 296x + 588 = (x + 2 ) (x + 294)

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