Scale Factor of 86 and 71

What is the Scale Factor of 86 and 71? What is the Scale Factor between 86 and 71? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 86 to a length of 71? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 86 to get 71 as illustrated below?:

86 × Scale Factor = 71

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 86 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(86 × Scale Factor)/86 = 71/86
Scale Factor = 71/86

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 = 71/86
Decimal answer ≈ 0.825581

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 86 × 71/86 = 71 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 86 is greater than 71, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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