Scale Factor of 35 and 24

What is the Scale Factor of 35 and 24? What is the Scale Factor between 35 and 24? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 35 to a length of 24? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 35 to get 24 as illustrated below?:

35 × Scale Factor = 24

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 35 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(35 × Scale Factor)/35 = 24/35
Scale Factor = 24/35

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 = 24/35
Decimal answer ≈ 0.685714

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 35 × 24/35 = 24 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 35 is greater than 24, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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