Scale Factor of 38 and 86

What is the Scale Factor of 38 and 86? What is the Scale Factor between 38 and 86? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 38 to a length of 86? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 38 to get 86 as illustrated below?:

38 × Scale Factor = 86

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 38 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(38 × Scale Factor)/38 = 86/38
Scale Factor = 86/38

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 5/19
Decimal answer ≈ 2.263158

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 38 × 2 5/19 = 86 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 38 is less than 86, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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