What two numbers multiply to -196 and add up to 195?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -196 and add up to 195?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 196

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 196 multiply to -196 and add up to 195:

-1 × 196 = -196
-1 + 196 = 195

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

x² + 195x - 196 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 196)

To summarize, since -1 and 196 multiply to -196 and add up 195, you know that the following is true:

x² + 195x - 196 = (x - 1 ) (x + 196)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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