Scale Factor of 96 and 8

What is the Scale Factor of 96 and 8? What is the Scale Factor between 96 and 8? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 96 to a length of 8? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 96 to get 8 as illustrated below?:

96 × Scale Factor = 8

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 = 8/96
Scale Factor = 8/96

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 = 1/12
Decimal answer ≈ 0.083333

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 96 × 1/12 = 8 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 96 is greater than 8, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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