What two numbers multiply to -232 and add up to 231?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -232 and add up to 231?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 232

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 232 multiply to -232 and add up to 231:

-1 × 232 = -232
-1 + 232 = 231

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

x² + 231x - 232 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 232)

To summarize, since -1 and 232 multiply to -232 and add up 231, you know that the following is true:

x² + 231x - 232 = (x - 1 ) (x + 232)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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