Scale Factor of 45 and 31

What is the Scale Factor of 45 and 31? What is the Scale Factor between 45 and 31? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 45 to a length of 31? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 45 to get 31 as illustrated below?:

45 × Scale Factor = 31

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 = 31/45
Scale Factor = 31/45

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 = 31/45
Decimal answer ≈ 0.688889

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 45 × 31/45 = 31 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 45 is greater than 31, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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