Scale Factor of 96 and 85

What is the Scale Factor of 96 and 85? What is the Scale Factor between 96 and 85? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 96 to a length of 85? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 96 to get 85 as illustrated below?:

96 × Scale Factor = 85

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 = 85/96
Scale Factor = 85/96

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 = 85/96
Decimal answer ≈ 0.885417

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 96 × 85/96 = 85 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 96 is greater than 85, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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