What two numbers multiply to -495 and add up to 494?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -495 and add up to 494?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 495

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 495 multiply to -495 and add up to 494:

-1 × 495 = -495
-1 + 495 = 494

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

x² + 494x - 495 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 495)

To summarize, since -1 and 495 multiply to -495 and add up 494, you know that the following is true:

x² + 494x - 495 = (x - 1 ) (x + 495)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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