Scale Factor of 43 and 56

What is the Scale Factor of 43 and 56? What is the Scale Factor between 43 and 56? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 43 to a length of 56? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 43 to get 56 as illustrated below?:

43 × Scale Factor = 56

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 43 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(43 × Scale Factor)/43 = 56/43
Scale Factor = 56/43

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 13/43
Decimal answer ≈ 1.302326

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 43 × 1 13/43 = 56 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 43 is less than 56, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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