What two numbers multiply to -49 and add up to -48?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -49 and add up to -48?"

The answer to your question is:

-49 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -49 and 1 multiply to -49 and add up to -48:

-49 × 1 = -49
-49 + 1 = -48

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

x² - 48x - 49 = 0

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

(x - 49 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -49 and 1 multiply to -49 and add up -48, you know that the following is true:

x² - 48x - 49 = (x - 49 ) (x + 1)

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