Trigonometry Examples

$\frac{1}{- \frac{8}{17}}$

Step 1

Cancel the common factor of $1$ and $- 1$ .

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Step 1.1

Rewrite $1$ as $- 1 (- 1)$ .

$\frac{- 1 (- 1)}{- \frac{8}{17}}$

Step 1.2

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$- \frac{1}{\frac{8}{17}}$

Step 2

Multiply the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator.

$- (1 (\frac{17}{8}))$

Step 3

Multiply $\frac{17}{8}$ by $1$ .

$- \frac{17}{8}$

Step 4

The result can be shown in multiple forms.

Exact Form:

$- \frac{17}{8}$

Decimal Form:

$- 2.125$

Mixed Number Form:

$- 2 \frac{1}{8}$