Scale Factor of 27 and 45

What is the Scale Factor of 27 and 45? What is the Scale Factor between 27 and 45? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 27 to a length of 45? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 27 to get 45 as illustrated below?:

27 × Scale Factor = 45

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 27 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(27 × Scale Factor)/27 = 45/27
Scale Factor = 45/27

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 2/3
Decimal answer ≈ 1.666667

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 27 × 1 2/3 = 45 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 27 is less than 45, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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