Scale Factor of 45 and 30

What is the Scale Factor of 45 and 30? What is the Scale Factor between 45 and 30? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 45 to a length of 30? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 45 to get 30 as illustrated below?:

45 × Scale Factor = 30

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 45 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(45 × Scale Factor)/45 = 30/45
Scale Factor = 30/45

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 = 2/3
Decimal answer ≈ 0.666667

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 45 × 2/3 = 30 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 45 is greater than 30, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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