What two numbers multiply to -242 and add up to 241?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -242 and add up to 241?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 242

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 242 multiply to -242 and add up to 241:

-1 × 242 = -242
-1 + 242 = 241

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

x² + 241x - 242 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 242)

To summarize, since -1 and 242 multiply to -242 and add up 241, you know that the following is true:

x² + 241x - 242 = (x - 1 ) (x + 242)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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