Homework Help: math

Posted by catalina on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 5:56pm.

Can someone please help me with this,

-x/y = 2/9

I do not understand how to solve....
thanks

-x/y = 2/9
multiply by 9y
9y*(-x/y)= 9y*(2/9)
-9x = 2y
can you take it from here?

thank you

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