What two numbers multiply to -275 and add up to 274?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -275 and add up to 274?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 275

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 275 multiply to -275 and add up to 274:

-1 × 275 = -275
-1 + 275 = 274

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

x² + 274x - 275 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 275)

To summarize, since -1 and 275 multiply to -275 and add up 274, you know that the following is true:

x² + 274x - 275 = (x - 1 ) (x + 275)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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