Scale Factor of 5 and 85

What is the Scale Factor of 5 and 85? What is the Scale Factor between 5 and 85? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 5 to a length of 85? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 5 to get 85 as illustrated below?:

5 × Scale Factor = 85

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 = 85/5
Scale Factor = 85/5

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 = 17
Decimal answer = 17

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 5 × 17 = 85 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 5 is less than 85, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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