How to use solve and sum together

From: "Konrad Viltersten" <tmp1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:17:36 +0200

To my biggest surprise i discovered that even if the following
works well:
sum(1)
solve('1 + x = 0')
the combination below does not!
solve ('sum(1) + x = 0')

1. Why?
2. How do i compute such things?

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