Question

Luis is making chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 18 cup of almonds for every 34 cup of chocolate chips. If Luis uses 3 cups of chocolate chips, how many cups of almonds will he need? Round to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

To find how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we can set up a proportion. Let's call the number of cups of almonds he needs x.

18/34 = x/3

Cross multiplying, we have:

34x = 18 * 3

34x = 54

Dividing both sides of the equation by 34, we get:

x = 54 / 34

Therefore, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds. Rounding to the nearest tenth, he will need about 1.6 cups of almonds.