Scale Factor of 66 and 1

What is the Scale Factor of 66 and 1? What is the Scale Factor between 66 and 1? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 66 to a length of 1? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 66 to get 1 as illustrated below?:

66 × Scale Factor = 1

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 66 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(66 × Scale Factor)/66 = 1/66
Scale Factor = 1/66

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 = 1/66
Decimal answer ≈ 0.015152

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 66 × 1/66 = 1 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 66 is greater than 1, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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