Scale Factor of 64 and 27

What is the Scale Factor of 64 and 27? What is the Scale Factor between 64 and 27? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 64 to a length of 27? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 64 to get 27 as illustrated below?:

64 × Scale Factor = 27

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 64 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(64 × Scale Factor)/64 = 27/64
Scale Factor = 27/64

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 = 27/64
Decimal answer = 0.421875

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 64 × 27/64 = 27 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 64 is greater than 27, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 64 and 28
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