What two numbers multiply to 843 and add up to -844?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to 843 and add up to -844?"

The answer to your question is:

-843 and -1

Below we illustrate and prove that -843 and -1 multiply to 843 and add up to -844:

-843 × -1 = 843
-843 + -1 = -844

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

x² - 844x + 843 = 0

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

(x - 843 ) (x - 1)

To summarize, since -843 and -1 multiply to 843 and add up -844, you know that the following is true:

x² - 844x + 843 = (x - 843 ) (x - 1)

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