What two numbers multiply to 880 and add up to 442?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 880 and add up to 442?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 440

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 440 multiply to 880 and add up to 442:

2 × 440 = 880
2 + 440 = 442

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

x² + 442x + 880 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 440)

To summarize, since 2 and 440 multiply to 880 and add up 442, you know that the following is true:

x² + 442x + 880 = (x + 2 ) (x + 440)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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