What two numbers multiply to 994 and add up to 499?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 994 and add up to 499?"

The answer to your question is:

2 and 497

Below we illustrate and prove that 2 and 497 multiply to 994 and add up to 499:

2 × 497 = 994
2 + 497 = 499

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

x² + 499x + 994 = 0

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

(x + 2 ) (x + 497)

To summarize, since 2 and 497 multiply to 994 and add up 499, you know that the following is true:

x² + 499x + 994 = (x + 2 ) (x + 497)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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