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.(1 point)

Responses

18.0 cups
18.0 cups

0.4 cup
0.4 cup

0.8 cup
0.8 cup

0.5 cup
0.5 cup

3 answers

To find the number of cups of almonds needed, we can set up a proportion using the ratio of almonds to chocolate chips given in the recipe.

18/34 = x/3

Cross multiplying gives us:

34x = 18 * 3

34x = 54

Dividing both sides by 34:

x = 54/34 ≈ 1.5882

Rounding to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds.
wrong sorry
I apologize for any confusion. Let's do the calculation again.

The recipe states that for every 34 cups of chocolate chips, 18 cups of almonds are needed.

Since Luis is using 3 cups of chocolate chips, we can set up a proportion to solve for the number of cups of almonds:

34 cups of chocolate chips / 18 cups of almonds = 3 cups of chocolate chips / x cups of almonds

Cross-multiplying, we get:

34 * x = 18 * 3

Simplifying, we have:

34x = 54

Dividing both sides by 34:

x = 54 / 34

Calculating this, we get:

x ≈ 1.588

Rounded to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds. I apologize for the mistake in my previous response.