Scale Factor of 96 and 99

What is the Scale Factor of 96 and 99? What is the Scale Factor between 96 and 99? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 96 to a length of 99? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 96 to get 99 as illustrated below?:

96 × Scale Factor = 99

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 = 99/96
Scale Factor = 99/96

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 1/32
Decimal answer = 1.03125

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 96 × 1 1/32 = 99 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 96 is less than 99, this is an Enlargement Scale Factor.

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