What two numbers multiply to -196 and add up to 0?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -196 and add up to 0?"

The answer to your question is:

-14 and 14

Below we illustrate and prove that -14 and 14 multiply to -196 and add up to 0:

-14 × 14 = -196
-14 + 14 = 0

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

x² + 0x - 196 = 0

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

(x - 14 ) (x + 14)

To summarize, since -14 and 14 multiply to -196 and add up 0, you know that the following is true:

x² + 0x - 196 = (x - 14 ) (x + 14)

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