Scale Factor of 64 and 6

What is the Scale Factor of 64 and 6? What is the Scale Factor between 64 and 6? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 64 to a length of 6? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 64 to get 6 as illustrated below?:

64 × Scale Factor = 6

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 = 6/64
Scale Factor = 6/64

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 = 3/32
Decimal answer = 0.09375

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 64 × 3/32 = 6 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 64 is greater than 6, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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