What two numbers multiply to 940 and add up to 472?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 940 and add up to 472?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 470

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 470 multiply to 940 and add up to 472:

2 × 470 = 940
2 + 470 = 472

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

x² + 472x + 940 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 470)

To summarize, since 2 and 470 multiply to 940 and add up 472, you know that the following is true:

x² + 472x + 940 = (x + 2 ) (x + 470)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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