Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Microsoft Excel is a versatile software program that allows you to create a variety of documents, images and charts. Create a linear scale in Excel to display the measurements of a map, drawing or ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

You already know that the size of an enlargement is described by its scale factor. For example, a scale factor of 2 means that the side-lengths of the new shape are twice the side-lengths of the ...

A scale factor can be used to create maps and other scale diagrams. When things are too big to draw on paper, scale factors are used to calculate smaller, proportional measurements. Floor plans for ...