Scale Factor of 96 and 50

What is the Scale Factor of 96 and 50? What is the Scale Factor between 96 and 50? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 96 to a length of 50? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 96 to get 50 as illustrated below?:

96 × Scale Factor = 50

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 96 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(96 × Scale Factor)/96 = 50/96
Scale Factor = 50/96

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 = 25/48
Decimal answer ≈ 0.520833

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 96 × 25/48 = 50 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 96 is greater than 50, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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