Luis is making chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 1/8 cup of almonds for every 3/4 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
0.5 cup
0.5 cup
0.4 cup
0.4 cup
0.8 cup
To find the number of cups of almonds Luis will need, we need to set up a proportion using the ratio given in the recipe.
The ratio of almonds to chocolate chips is 1/8 cup of almonds for every 3/4 cup of chocolate chips.
Let x be the number of cups of almonds Luis will need.
1/8 / 3/4 = x / 3
To solve for x, we can cross multiply:
3 * 1/8 = x * 3/4
3/8 = 3x/4
Next, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 4/3 to isolate x:
4/3 * 3/8 = x
1/2 = x
Therefore, Luis will need 0.5 cups of almonds.