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I need help hopefully someone can guide me 2/7 = ?/ 49

i need to find the missing numerator so that the fraction can be equal

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The missing numerator is 14. An easy way to do this is to have: 2/7 = X/49 and then cross multiply. So multiply 2 and 49 and set it equal to 7 multiplied by X
98=7X
Then divide 98 by 7
X= 14
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