Rhode Island is about 79 times smaller than Utah.

Utah is approximately 212,751 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.27% the size of Utah. Meanwhile, the population of Utah is ~2.8 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Utah vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.