Scale Factor of 47 and 52

What is the Scale Factor of 47 and 52? What is the Scale Factor between 47 and 52? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 47 to a length of 52? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 47 to get 52 as illustrated below?:

47 × Scale Factor = 52

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 47 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(47 × Scale Factor)/47 = 52/47
Scale Factor = 52/47

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 5/47
Decimal answer ≈ 1.106383

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 47 × 1 5/47 = 52 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 47 is less than 52, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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