Scale Factor of 17 and 11

What is the Scale Factor of 17 and 11? What is the Scale Factor between 17 and 11? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 17 to a length of 11? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 17 to get 11 as illustrated below?:

17 × Scale Factor = 11

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 17 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(17 × Scale Factor)/17 = 11/17
Scale Factor = 11/17

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 = 11/17
Decimal answer ≈ 0.647059

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 17 × 11/17 = 11 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 17 is greater than 11, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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