Scale Factor of 48 and 49

What is the Scale Factor of 48 and 49? What is the Scale Factor between 48 and 49? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 48 to a length of 49? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 48 to get 49 as illustrated below?:

48 × Scale Factor = 49

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 48 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(48 × Scale Factor)/48 = 49/48
Scale Factor = 49/48

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 1/48
Decimal answer ≈ 1.020833

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 48 × 1 1/48 = 49 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 48 is less than 49, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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