What two numbers multiply to -274 and add up to 273?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -274 and add up to 273?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 274

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 274 multiply to -274 and add up to 273:

-1 × 274 = -274
-1 + 274 = 273

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

x² + 273x - 274 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 274)

To summarize, since -1 and 274 multiply to -274 and add up 273, you know that the following is true:

x² + 273x - 274 = (x - 1 ) (x + 274)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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