Scale Factor of 24 and 27

What is the Scale Factor of 24 and 27? What is the Scale Factor between 24 and 27? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 24 to a length of 27? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 24 to get 27 as illustrated below?:

24 × Scale Factor = 27

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 24 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(24 × Scale Factor)/24 = 27/24
Scale Factor = 27/24

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 1/8
Decimal answer = 1.125

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 24 × 1 1/8 = 27 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 24 is less than 27, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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