Scale Factor of 18 and 19

What is the Scale Factor of 18 and 19? What is the Scale Factor between 18 and 19? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 18 to a length of 19? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 18 to get 19 as illustrated below?:

18 × Scale Factor = 19

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 18 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(18 × Scale Factor)/18 = 19/18
Scale Factor = 19/18

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 = 1 1/18
Decimal answer ≈ 1.055556

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 18 × 1 1/18 = 19 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 18 is less than 19, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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