What two numbers multiply to -252 and add up to 251?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -252 and add up to 251?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 252

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 252 multiply to -252 and add up to 251:

-1 × 252 = -252
-1 + 252 = 251

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

x² + 251x - 252 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 252)

To summarize, since -1 and 252 multiply to -252 and add up 251, you know that the following is true:

x² + 251x - 252 = (x - 1 ) (x + 252)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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