What two numbers multiply to -662 and add up to -661?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -662 and add up to -661?"

The answer to your question is:

-662 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -662 and 1 multiply to -662 and add up to -661:

-662 × 1 = -662
-662 + 1 = -661

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

x² - 661x - 662 = 0

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

(x - 662 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -662 and 1 multiply to -662 and add up -661, you know that the following is true:

x² - 661x - 662 = (x - 662 ) (x + 1)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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