Its very simple. You see, consider a right angled triangle, and the side opposite to the right angle or the largest side is Hypotnuse and the side the is adjacent to the angle that you choose is the adjacent side.
Is e just an algebraic expression or is it Euler's number (2.718...)?
If e is an algebraic expression then there it is
Answer: You might need to be more descriptive, there's a lot of numbers that could be added together to equal -8.
-4 + -4 = -8.
-6 + -2 = -8.
etc.