What two numbers multiply to 879 and add up to -880?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 879 and add up to -880?"

The answer to your question is:

-879 and -1

Below we illustrate and prove that -879 and -1 multiply to 879 and add up to -880:

-879 × -1 = 879
-879 + -1 = -880

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

x² - 880x + 879 = 0

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

(x - 879 ) (x - 1)

To summarize, since -879 and -1 multiply to 879 and add up -880, you know that the following is true:

x² - 880x + 879 = (x - 879 ) (x - 1)

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