What two numbers multiply to -250 and add up to 249?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -250 and add up to 249?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 250

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 250 multiply to -250 and add up to 249:

-1 × 250 = -250
-1 + 250 = 249

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

x² + 249x - 250 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 250)

To summarize, since -1 and 250 multiply to -250 and add up 249, you know that the following is true:

x² + 249x - 250 = (x - 1 ) (x + 250)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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