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Question 683656: A pleasant day Sir or Madam. please help me with this word problem involving rational expressions.
If twice the reciprocal is subtracted from the number, the result is -7/5. Find the number.
Thank you very much for your help.

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the unknown number =
given:

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Multiply both sides by


Use the quadratic formula







The 2 answers are


I could have made a mistake. You might want
to get a 2nd opinion on this.

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