Scale Factor of 97 and 28

What is the Scale Factor of 97 and 28? What is the Scale Factor between 97 and 28? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 97 to a length of 28? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 97 to get 28 as illustrated below?:

97 × Scale Factor = 28

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 97 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(97 × Scale Factor)/97 = 28/97
Scale Factor = 28/97

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 = 28/97
Decimal answer ≈ 0.288660

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 97 × 28/97 = 28 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 97 is greater than 28, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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