What two numbers multiply to -744 and add up to -743?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -744 and add up to -743?"

The answer to your question is:

-744 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -744 and 1 multiply to -744 and add up to -743:

-744 × 1 = -744
-744 + 1 = -743

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

x² - 743x - 744 = 0

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

(x - 744 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -744 and 1 multiply to -744 and add up -743, you know that the following is true:

x² - 743x - 744 = (x - 744 ) (x + 1)

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