Scale Factor of 7 and 3

What is the Scale Factor of 7 and 3? What is the Scale Factor between 7 and 3? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 7 to a length of 3? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 7 to get 3 as illustrated below?:

7 × Scale Factor = 3

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 7 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(7 × Scale Factor)/7 = 3/7
Scale Factor = 3/7

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 = 3/7
Decimal answer ≈ 0.428571

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 7 × 3/7 = 3 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 7 is greater than 3, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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