Scale Factor of 82 and 2

What is the Scale Factor of 82 and 2? What is the Scale Factor between 82 and 2? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 82 to a length of 2? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 82 to get 2 as illustrated below?:

82 × Scale Factor = 2

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 82 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(82 × Scale Factor)/82 = 2/82
Scale Factor = 2/82

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 = 1/41
Decimal answer ≈ 0.024390

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 82 × 1/41 = 2 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 82 is greater than 2, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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