Scale Factor of 99 and 87

What is the Scale Factor of 99 and 87? What is the Scale Factor between 99 and 87? More specifically, what is the Scale Factor from a length of 99 to a length of 87? In other words, what (Scale Factor) can you multiply by 99 to get 87 as illustrated below?:

99 × Scale Factor = 87

To solve the equation above, you simply divide both sides by 99 to get the Scale Factor alone on the left side:

(99 × Scale Factor)/99 = 87/99
Scale Factor = 87/99

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 = 29/33
Decimal answer ≈ 0.878788

You may also be interested to know that we verified that 99 × 29/33 = 87 is true, which means that our answer is correct. Also, note that since 99 is greater than 87, this is a Reduction Scale Factor.

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