What two numbers multiply to -144 and add up to 143?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -144 and add up to 143?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 144

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 144 multiply to -144 and add up to 143:

-1 × 144 = -144
-1 + 144 = 143

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

x² + 143x - 144 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 144)

To summarize, since -1 and 144 multiply to -144 and add up 143, you know that the following is true:

x² + 143x - 144 = (x - 1 ) (x + 144)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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