Scale Factor of 26 and 43

What is the Scale Factor of 26 and 43? What is the Scale Factor between 26 and 43? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 26 to a length of 43? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 26 to get 43 as illustrated below?:

26 × Scale Factor = 43

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 26 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(26 × Scale Factor)/26 = 43/26
Scale Factor = 43/26

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 17/26
Decimal answer ≈ 1.653846

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 26 × 1 17/26 = 43 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 26 is less than 43, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 26 and 44
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