Solve Division with Decimals: Evaluating -3.5 ÷ (-7) + 14

Let's solve the exercise from left to right.

We'll write the division problem as a simple fraction in the following way:

$\frac{-3.5}{-7}+14=$

Let's note that we are dividing a negative number by a negative number, so the result will necessarily be a positive number:

$\frac{-}{-}=+$

We'll break down 7 into a multiplication problem:

$\frac{3.5}{3.5\times2}+14=$

We'll reduce the 3.5 in both the numerator and denominator of the fraction and get:

$\frac{1}{2}+14=14\frac{1}{2}$