What two numbers multiply to -697 and add up to -696?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -697 and add up to -696?"

The answer to your question is:

-697 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -697 and 1 multiply to -697 and add up to -696:

-697 × 1 = -697
-697 + 1 = -696

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

x² - 696x - 697 = 0

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

(x - 697 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -697 and 1 multiply to -697 and add up -696, you know that the following is true:

x² - 696x - 697 = (x - 697 ) (x + 1)

Multiply To One Number and Add Up To Another
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