SOLUTION: Simplify: {{{(-6)/(-14)}}} can you please help? thank you very much!

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Question 341209: Simplify:
%28-6%29%2F%28-14%29
can you please help? thank you very much!

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

%28-6%29%2F%28-14%29

First of all a negative number divided by a negative number
gives a positive number, so we can "cancel" the negative
signs and make the whole thing positive.  So we have

%28%22%22%2B6%29%2F%28%22%22%2B14%29

or just

6%2F14

Now we can divide the numerator and the denominator both by 2,
and we get:

3%2F7

That's the final answer.

Edwin