
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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