What two numbers multiply to -749 and add up to -748?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -749 and add up to -748?"

The answer to your question is:

-749 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -749 and 1 multiply to -749 and add up to -748:

-749 × 1 = -749
-749 + 1 = -748

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

x² - 748x - 749 = 0

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

(x - 749 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -749 and 1 multiply to -749 and add up -748, you know that the following is true:

x² - 748x - 749 = (x - 749 ) (x + 1)

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