Scale Factor of 76 and 55

What is the Scale Factor of 76 and 55? What is the Scale Factor between 76 and 55? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 76 to a length of 55? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 76 to get 55 as illustrated below?:

76 × Scale Factor = 55

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 76 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(76 × Scale Factor)/76 = 55/76
Scale Factor = 55/76

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 = 55/76
Decimal answer ≈ 0.723684

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 76 × 55/76 = 55 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 76 is greater than 55, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 76 and 56
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