Scale Factor of 56 and 20

What is the Scale Factor of 56 and 20? What is the Scale Factor between 56 and 20? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 56 to a length of 20? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 56 to get 20 as illustrated below?:

56 × Scale Factor = 20

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 56 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(56 × Scale Factor)/56 = 20/56
Scale Factor = 20/56

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 = 5/14
Decimal answer ≈ 0.357143

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 56 × 5/14 = 20 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 56 is greater than 20, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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