Scale Factor of 6 and 22

What is the Scale Factor of 6 and 22? What is the Scale Factor between 6 and 22? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 6 to a length of 22? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 6 to get 22 as illustrated below?:

6 × Scale Factor = 22

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 6 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(6 × Scale Factor)/6 = 22/6
Scale Factor = 22/6

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 = 3 2/3
Decimal answer ≈ 3.666667

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 6 × 3 2/3 = 22 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 6 is less than 22, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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