What two numbers multiply to -618 and add up to 617?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -618 and add up to 617?"

The answer to your question is:

-1 and 618

Below we illustrate and prove that -1 and 618 multiply to -618 and add up to 617:

-1 × 618 = -618
-1 + 618 = 617

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

x² + 617x - 618 = 0

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

(x - 1 ) (x + 618)

To summarize, since -1 and 618 multiply to -618 and add up 617, you know that the following is true:

x² + 617x - 618 = (x - 1 ) (x + 618)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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