Scale Factor of 28 and 64

What is the Scale Factor of 28 and 64? What is the Scale Factor between 28 and 64? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 28 to a length of 64? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 28 to get 64 as illustrated below?:

28 × Scale Factor = 64

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 28 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(28 × Scale Factor)/28 = 64/28
Scale Factor = 64/28

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 = 2 2/7
Decimal answer ≈ 2.285714

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 28 × 2 2/7 = 64 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 28 is less than 64, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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