What two numbers multiply to 997 and add up to 998?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 997 and add up to 998?"

The answer to your question is:

1 and 997

Below we illustrate and prove that 1 and 997 multiply to 997 and add up to 998:

1 × 997 = 997
1 + 997 = 998

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

x² + 998x + 997 = 0

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

(x + 1 ) (x + 997)

To summarize, since 1 and 997 multiply to 997 and add up 998, you know that the following is true:

x² + 998x + 997 = (x + 1 ) (x + 997)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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