What two numbers multiply to -179 and add up to 178?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -179 and add up to 178?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 179

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 179 multiply to -179 and add up to 178:

-1 × 179 = -179
-1 + 179 = 178

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

x² + 178x - 179 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 179)

To summarize, since -1 and 179 multiply to -179 and add up 178, you know that the following is true:

x² + 178x - 179 = (x - 1 ) (x + 179)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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