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by **martaw7** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:56 pm

-7yt over 3x = ? over 18xyt

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by **stapel_eliz** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:20 pm

martaw7 wrote:-7yt over 3x = ? over 18xyt

I will guess that the original equation is as follows:

. . . . . $\frac{-7yt}{3x}\, =\, \frac{\, ?\, }{18xyt}$

...and that the instructions were something along the lines of "Find the expression which makes the two fractions similar." If so, then:

Find the value by which 3x was multiplied, in order to get 18xyt, and multiply -7yt by the same value. :wink:

by **martaw7** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:23 pm

please show me how i am missing steps each time some were and not working out

by **stapel_eliz** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:40 pm

What did you get when you divided 18xyt by 3x, to find what 3x had been multiplied by to get 18xty?

What did you get when you multiplied -7yt by this same value?

Please show your steps. Once we can see what you did, we'll have a better change to help you find where you may have gone wrong.

Thank you!

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