Yes. Factors are numbers that multiply to create a product.
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The difference is between factor pairs and distinct factors. With square numbers, one of the factor pairs will be the same number twice. When listing the distinct factors, that number is only listed once.
Pairs of numbers whose sum is -14 and that are factors of -189 include -7 and -7, and -21 and 7.
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17 has one factor pair, 1 and 17.
There are no real numbers with the sum of 4 and a product of -477. The factors of -477 are (1,-477), (3, -159) and (9, -53). The negatives can be switched to the other numbers in those pairs of factors.