What two numbers multiply to 589 and add up to -590?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 589 and add up to -590?"

The answer to your question is:

-589 and -1

Below we illustrate and prove that -589 and -1 multiply to 589 and add up to -590:

-589 × -1 = 589
-589 + -1 = -590

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

x² - 590x + 589 = 0

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

(x - 589 ) (x - 1)

To summarize, since -589 and -1 multiply to 589 and add up -590, you know that the following is true:

x² - 590x + 589 = (x - 589 ) (x - 1)

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