What two numbers multiply to -238 and add up to 237?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -238 and add up to 237?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 238

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 238 multiply to -238 and add up to 237:

-1 × 238 = -238
-1 + 238 = 237

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

x² + 237x - 238 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 238)

To summarize, since -1 and 238 multiply to -238 and add up 237, you know that the following is true:

x² + 237x - 238 = (x - 1 ) (x + 238)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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