What two numbers multiply to -143 and add up to 2?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -143 and add up to 2?"

The answer to your question is:

-11 and 13

Below we illustrate and prove that -11 and 13 multiply to -143 and add up to 2:

-11 × 13 = -143
-11 + 13 = 2

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

x² + 2x - 143 = 0

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

(x - 11 ) (x + 13)

To summarize, since -11 and 13 multiply to -143 and add up 2, you know that the following is true:

x² + 2x - 143 = (x - 11 ) (x + 13)

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