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What two numbers add to equal ten and multiplies to equal negative seven?

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Okay ShallBeTheLast, what we will do will involve a lot of simple plug and play kind of actions.
To start we must notice one number must be negative and the other should be positive, because the multiplied number is a negative.

Next, lets multiply number that have a sum of 10 (keep in mind one has to be negative and the other has to be positive).

-1 * 10 = -10 false
-2 * 12 = -24 false
-3 * 13 = -39 false
notice that no number working and it's only getting farther away.
There is no solution for this that involves to integers.

I think you might of wrote the question backwards.
If that is the case we would run numbers like.....
-1 * (-6) = 7 false
-2 * (-5) = 10 true!!!!

-2 and -5 would work
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