Scale Factor of 98 and 72

What is the Scale Factor of 98 and 72? What is the Scale Factor between 98 and 72? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 98 to a length of 72? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 98 to get 72 as illustrated below?:

98 × Scale Factor = 72

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 98 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(98 × Scale Factor)/98 = 72/98
Scale Factor = 72/98

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 = 36/49
Decimal answer ≈ 0.734694

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 98 × 36/49 = 72 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 98 is greater than 72, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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Scale Factor of 98 and 73
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