How do you solve $\frac{7}{b} = \frac{1}{9}$ $7/b=1/9$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-11T17:23:27

$b = 63$ $b=63$

$\frac{7}{b} = \frac{1}{9}$ $7/b=1/9$ is our equation, which we divide, multiply, manipulate, so long as we do it to both sides of the equation.

We can mulitply both sides by $b$ $b$ :

i.e. $\frac{7}{b} \times b = \frac{b}{9}$ $7/bxxb=b/9$ ;

$7 = \frac{b}{9}$ $7=b/9$ ; and now mulitply both sides by $9$ $9$ :

$7 \times 9 = 63 = b$ $7xx9=63=b$ .

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