What plus 1 equals 2/7?


Here we will show you how to find the answer to "What plus 1 equals 2/7?" In other words, x plus 1 equals 2/7. What is x?

First, note that 1 is a number and 2/7 is a fraction. You can convert the 1 to a fraction by making 1 the numerator and 1 the denominator. Thus, here is the question "What plus 1 equals 2/7?" as a function:

x  + 
   
1
 
   
1
 
  = 
   
2
 
   
7
 
   

Next, we move the 1/1 fraction from the left side to the right side to make x alone on the left side. Don't forget that when we move it to the other side, we have to make it a negative fraction instead of a positive fraction like so:

x  = 
   
2
 
   
7
 
  - 
   
1
 
   
1
 
   

Finally, we subtract 1/1 from 2/7 to get the answer to "What plus 1 equals 2/7?"

x  =   - 
   
5
 
   
7
 
   

That's it! Now you know how to calculate "What plus 1 equals 2/7?". The answer to "What plus 1 equals 2/7?" in its simplest form is -5/7. You know this answer is correct because 1 plus -5/7 equals 2/7.


Bonus: You may also be interested to know that the answer in decimal form is -0.7143 (rounded to 4 decimal places if necessary). We calculated the decimal answer by dividing the numerator of the fraction answer by the denominator of the fraction answer (-5/7).

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