Scale Factor of 5 and 5

What is the Scale Factor of 5 and 5? What is the Scale Factor between 5 and 5? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 5 to a length of 5? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 5 to get 5 as illustrated below?:

5 × Scale Factor = 5

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 5 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(5 × Scale Factor)/5 = 5/5
Scale Factor = 5/5

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
Decimal answer = 1

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 5 × 1 = 5 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 5 is equal to 5, this is a Congruent Scale Factor.

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