Scale Factor of 70 and 60

What is the Scale Factor of 70 and 60? What is the Scale Factor between 70 and 60? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 70 to a length of 60? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 70 to get 60 as illustrated below?:

70 × Scale Factor = 60

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 70 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(70 × Scale Factor)/70 = 60/70
Scale Factor = 60/70

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 = 6/7
Decimal answer ≈ 0.857143

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 70 × 6/7 = 60 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 70 is greater than 60, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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