Scale Factor of 79 and 6

What is the Scale Factor of 79 and 6? What is the Scale Factor between 79 and 6? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 79 to a length of 6? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 79 to get 6 as illustrated below?:

79 × Scale Factor = 6

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 79 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(79 × Scale Factor)/79 = 6/79
Scale Factor = 6/79

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 = 6/79
Decimal answer ≈ 0.075949

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 79 × 6/79 = 6 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 79 is greater than 6, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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