Scale Factor of 12 and 10

What is the Scale Factor of 12 and 10? What is the Scale Factor between 12 and 10? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 12 to a length of 10? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 12 to get 10 as illustrated below?:

12 × Scale Factor = 10

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 12 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(12 × Scale Factor)/12 = 10/12
Scale Factor = 10/12

We could leave the answer like that, but we have also converted the answer to its simplest fraction form and to decimal form:

Fraction answer = 5/6
Decimal answer ≈ 0.833333

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 12 × 5/6 = 10 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 12 is greater than 10, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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