What two numbers multiply to -262 and add up to 261?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -262 and add up to 261?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 262

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 262 multiply to -262 and add up to 261:

-1 × 262 = -262
-1 + 262 = 261

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

x² + 261x - 262 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 262)

To summarize, since -1 and 262 multiply to -262 and add up 261, you know that the following is true:

x² + 261x - 262 = (x - 1 ) (x + 262)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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