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
A 0.8 cup
B 18.0 cups
C 0.5 cup
D 0.4 cup
To find out how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we can set up a proportion.
The ratio of almonds to chocolate chips is 18 cups to 34 cups.
Let x be the number of cups of almonds Luis will need.
18/34 = x/3
Cross multiplying, we get:
34x = 18 * 3
34x = 54
Dividing both sides by 34, we get:
x = 54/34
x ≈ 1.59
Therefore, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds.
Rounded to the nearest tenth, the answer is 1.6 cups.
So, the correct answer is not given in the options provided.