Scale Factor of 52 and 7

What is the Scale Factor of 52 and 7? What is the Scale Factor between 52 and 7? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 52 to a length of 7? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 52 to get 7 as illustrated below?:

52 × Scale Factor = 7

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 52 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(52 × Scale Factor)/52 = 7/52
Scale Factor = 7/52

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 = 7/52
Decimal answer ≈ 0.134615

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 52 × 7/52 = 7 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 52 is greater than 7, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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