Scale Factor of 71 and 44

What is the Scale Factor of 71 and 44? What is the Scale Factor between 71 and 44? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 71 to a length of 44? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 71 to get 44 as illustrated below?:

71 × Scale Factor = 44

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 71 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(71 × Scale Factor)/71 = 44/71
Scale Factor = 44/71

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 = 44/71
Decimal answer ≈ 0.619718

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 71 × 44/71 = 44 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 71 is greater than 44, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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