Scale Factor of 61 and 78

What is the Scale Factor of 61 and 78? What is the Scale Factor between 61 and 78? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 61 to a length of 78? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 61 to get 78 as illustrated below?:

61 × Scale Factor = 78

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 61 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(61 × Scale Factor)/61 = 78/61
Scale Factor = 78/61

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 17/61
Decimal answer ≈ 1.278689

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 61 × 1 17/61 = 78 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 61 is less than 78, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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