What two numbers multiply to 996 and add up to 997?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 996 and add up to 997?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 996

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 996 multiply to 996 and add up to 997:

1 × 996 = 996
1 + 996 = 997

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

x² + 997x + 996 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 996)

To summarize, since 1 and 996 multiply to 996 and add up 997, you know that the following is true:

x² + 997x + 996 = (x + 1 ) (x + 996)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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