To find the answer to "What two numbers have a product of 60 and a sum of -134?" we first state what we know. We are looking for x and y and we know that x • y = 60 and x + y = -134.
Before we keep going, it is important to know that x • y is the same as y • x and x + y is the same as y + x. The two variables are interchangeable. Which means that when we create one equation to solve the problem, we will have two answers.
To solve the problem, we take x + y = -134 and solve it for y to get y = -134 - x. Then, we replace y in x • y = 60 with -134 - x to get this:
x • (-134 - x) = 60
Like we said above, the x and y are interchangeable, therefore the x in the equation above could also be y. The bottom line is that when we solved the equation we got two answers which are the two numbers that have a product of 60 and a sum of -134. The numbers are:
-133.55073
-0.44927
That's it! The two numbers that have a product of 60 and a sum of -134 are -133.55073 and -0.44927 as proven below:
-133.55073 • -0.44927 ≈ 60
-133.55073 + -0.44927 = -134
Note: Answers are rounded up to the nearest five decimals if necessary so the answers may not be exact.
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