SOLUTION: Helping my daughter with homework and needing help X-(-9\14)=5\7

Question 506087: Helping my daughter with homework and needing help
X-(-9\14)=5\7
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Whether you are helping someone else or yourself, you still need to describe what it is that is giving you trouble or at the very least ask a specific question. Otherwise, we have to assume what you want which means that we may do work that is unnecessary or fail to do that which is necessary.

I presume you want to solve for

First remove the parentheses. Assume a -1 for each minus sign, then -1 times -1 is 1, so the equation simplifies to:

Then add

to both sides of the equation. I assume you know how to add and subtract fractions by obtaining and applying a lowest common denominator.

John

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