What two numbers multiply to -546 and add up to 271?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -546 and add up to 271?"

The answer to your question is:

-2 and 273

Below we illustrate and prove that -2 and 273 multiply to -546 and add up to 271:

-2 × 273 = -546
-2 + 273 = 271

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

x² + 271x - 546 = 0

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

(x - 2 ) (x + 273)

To summarize, since -2 and 273 multiply to -546 and add up 271, you know that the following is true:

x² + 271x - 546 = (x - 2 ) (x + 273)

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