Scale Factor of 16 and 75

What is the Scale Factor of 16 and 75? What is the Scale Factor between 16 and 75? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 16 to a length of 75? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 16 to get 75 as illustrated below?:

16 × Scale Factor = 75

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 16 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(16 × Scale Factor)/16 = 75/16
Scale Factor = 75/16

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 = 4 11/16
Decimal answer = 4.6875

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 16 × 4 11/16 = 75 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 16 is less than 75, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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