What two numbers multiply to -204 and add up to 203?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -204 and add up to 203?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 204

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 204 multiply to -204 and add up to 203:

-1 × 204 = -204
-1 + 204 = 203

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

x² + 203x - 204 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 204)

To summarize, since -1 and 204 multiply to -204 and add up 203, you know that the following is true:

x² + 203x - 204 = (x - 1 ) (x + 204)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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