What two numbers multiply to -271 and add up to 270?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -271 and add up to 270?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 271

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 271 multiply to -271 and add up to 270:

-1 × 271 = -271
-1 + 271 = 270

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

x² + 270x - 271 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 271)

To summarize, since -1 and 271 multiply to -271 and add up 270, you know that the following is true:

x² + 270x - 271 = (x - 1 ) (x + 271)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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