What two numbers multiply to -203 and add up to 202?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -203 and add up to 202?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 203

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 203 multiply to -203 and add up to 202:

-1 × 203 = -203
-1 + 203 = 202

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

x² + 202x - 203 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 203)

To summarize, since -1 and 203 multiply to -203 and add up 202, you know that the following is true:

x² + 202x - 203 = (x - 1 ) (x + 203)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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