What two numbers multiply to -256 and add up to 24?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -256 and add up to 24?"

The answer to your question is:

-8 and 32

Below we illustrate and prove that -8 and 32 multiply to -256 and add up to 24:

-8 × 32 = -256
-8 + 32 = 24

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

x² + 24x - 256 = 0

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

(x - 8 ) (x + 32)

To summarize, since -8 and 32 multiply to -256 and add up 24, you know that the following is true:

x² + 24x - 256 = (x - 8 ) (x + 32)

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