A Good Time to Refuse
Python 2, 305
This is the golfed version. It is practically unusable for n &gt; 3, as the time (and space) complexity is like 3n2... actually that may be way too low for the time. Anyway, the function accepts a list of strings.
def f(i):
 Z=range;r=map(__import__('fractions').Fraction,i);R=r[1:];n=len(R);L=[[[1]*n,[0]]];g=0
 for m,p in L: 
  for d in([v/3**i%3for i in Z(n)]for v in Z(3**n)):
    try:x=min(m[i]/R[i]/d[i]for i in Z(n)if m[i]*d[i]&gt;0);L+=[[[m[i]-x*R[i]*d[i]for i in Z(n)],[p[0]+x]+p]]
    except:g|=p[0]-r[0]in p
 return g

A slightly optimized version can finish the test cases in a couple of minutes. It might still be slow for an impossible n=5 case though.
def fLessslow(i):
 Z=range
 r=map(__import__('fractions').Fraction,i)
 R=r[1:]
 n=len(R)
 L=[((1,)*n,(0,))]
 ls = set(L)
 for m,p in L: 
  if p[0]-r[0]in p: return 1
  for d in([v/3**i%3 for i in Z(n)]for v in Z(3**n)):
   if any(d[i] and m[i]&lt;=0 for i in Z(n)):continue
   try:
    x=min(m[i]/R[i]/d[i]for i in Z(n)if m[i]*d[i]&gt;0)
    thing = (tuple(m[i]-x*R[i]*d[i]for i in Z(n)),(p[0]+x,)+p)
    if thing not in ls:L+=[thing];ls.add(thing)
   except:5
 return 0

print fLessslow('5/1 6/1 1/6 9/1 1/9'.split())
print fLessslow('29/6 3/2 2/3 3/5 3/7 7/5'.split())