What two numbers multiply to 974 and add up to 489?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 974 and add up to 489?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 487

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 487 multiply to 974 and add up to 489:

2 × 487 = 974
2 + 487 = 489

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

x² + 489x + 974 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 487)

To summarize, since 2 and 487 multiply to 974 and add up 489, you know that the following is true:

x² + 489x + 974 = (x + 2 ) (x + 487)

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