Answer:
This is wirtten all in one paragraph, because that is what the question asks.
There are five main type of reactions under which you can classify most chemical reactions. Those are: combination (also known as shythesis), decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. You know that it is a synthesis (combination) reactions when there are two reactants and one single product (the two reactants are combined to form one single product). When you have one single reactant and two or more products, it is a decomposition reaction (the one reactant decomposed). When oxygen is one of the reactants the reaction is a combustion. When ions are exchanged you are in front of replacement reactions: if it is one ion which is exchanged it is single replacement, and if there are two reactants and two products in which the ions are exchanged, then it is a double replacement reaction.
<u>Answer:</u> The equation is given below.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Single replacement reactions are the chemical reactions in which more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from its chemical reaction. General equation for these reactions is given by the equation:

Metal A is more reactive than metal B.
The reactivity of metals is judged with the help of reactivity series. In this series, the metals lying above are more reactive than the metals which lie below in the series.
For the reaction of solid lithium metal and nitric acid, the equation follows:

This is a type of single replacement reaction because Lithium (more reactive metal) is replacing Hydrogen (less reactive metal) from the chemical reaction.