What two numbers multiply to -253 and add up to 252?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -253 and add up to 252?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 253

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 253 multiply to -253 and add up to 252:

-1 × 253 = -253
-1 + 253 = 252

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

x² + 252x - 253 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 253)

To summarize, since -1 and 253 multiply to -253 and add up 252, you know that the following is true:

x² + 252x - 253 = (x - 1 ) (x + 253)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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