Scale Factor of 34 and 1

What is the Scale Factor of 34 and 1? What is the Scale Factor between 34 and 1? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 34 to a length of 1? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 34 to get 1 as illustrated below?:

34 × Scale Factor = 1

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 34 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(34 × Scale Factor)/34 = 1/34
Scale Factor = 1/34

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 = 1/34
Decimal answer ≈ 0.029412

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 34 × 1/34 = 1 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 34 is greater than 1, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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