Scale Factor of 63 and 28

What is the Scale Factor of 63 and 28? What is the Scale Factor between 63 and 28? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 63 to a length of 28? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 63 to get 28 as illustrated below?:

63 × Scale Factor = 28

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 63 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(63 × Scale Factor)/63 = 28/63
Scale Factor = 28/63

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 = 4/9
Decimal answer ≈ 0.444444

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 63 × 4/9 = 28 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 63 is greater than 28, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 63 and 29
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