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)

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18.0 cups
18.0 cups

0.4 cup
0.4 cup

0.8 cup
0.8 cup

0.5 cup

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To find out how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we need to use the given ratio of 18 cups of almonds for every 34 cups of chocolate chips.

First, we set up a proportion with x representing the number of cups of almonds Luis will need:

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

Now, we can cross multiply and solve for x:

18 * 3 = 34 * x

54 = 34x

Divide both sides by 34:

x = 54 / 34 ≈ 1.6

Therefore, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds. Rounding to the nearest tenth, the answer is 1.6 cups.
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0.5 cup