Scale Factor of 40 and 47

What is the Scale Factor of 40 and 47? What is the Scale Factor between 40 and 47? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 40 to a length of 47? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 40 to get 47 as illustrated below?:

40 × Scale Factor = 47

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 40 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(40 × Scale Factor)/40 = 47/40
Scale Factor = 47/40

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 7/40
Decimal answer = 1.175

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 40 × 1 7/40 = 47 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 40 is less than 47, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 40 and 48
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