SOLUTION: Two numbers add to -12 and multiply to + 35

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Question 621122: Two numbers add to -12 and multiply to + 35
Answer by KMST(5328)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I see two ways to the solution.
FACTORING:
If the numbers must be integers, the only solutions are included in the following products:
or and
or
The only one of those product whose factors add up to -12 is the product of
and .
USING QUADRATIC EQUATION:
The two solutions to the equation add up to -12 and multiply to + 35.
(The solutions to a quadratic equation add up to the opposite of the term in x, and their product is the independent term).
The quadratic formula says that the solutions are given by

resulting in
and

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