What two numbers multiply to -299 and add up to 298?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -299 and add up to 298?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 299

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 299 multiply to -299 and add up to 298:

-1 × 299 = -299
-1 + 299 = 298

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

x² + 298x - 299 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 299)

To summarize, since -1 and 299 multiply to -299 and add up 298, you know that the following is true:

x² + 298x - 299 = (x - 1 ) (x + 299)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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