What two numbers multiply to 976 and add up to 490?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 976 and add up to 490?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 488

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 488 multiply to 976 and add up to 490:

2 × 488 = 976
2 + 488 = 490

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

x² + 490x + 976 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 488)

To summarize, since 2 and 488 multiply to 976 and add up 490, you know that the following is true:

x² + 490x + 976 = (x + 2 ) (x + 488)

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