What two numbers multiply to -146 and add up to 145?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -146 and add up to 145?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 146

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 146 multiply to -146 and add up to 145:

-1 × 146 = -146
-1 + 146 = 145

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

x² + 145x - 146 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 146)

To summarize, since -1 and 146 multiply to -146 and add up 145, you know that the following is true:

x² + 145x - 146 = (x - 1 ) (x + 146)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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