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
0.4 cup
0.4 cup
0.8 cup
0.8 cup
0.5 cup
0.5 cup
18.0 cups
18.0 cups
To determine how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we can set up a proportion using the ratio provided in the recipe:
18/34 = x/3
To solve for x, we can cross multiply:
34x = 18 * 3
34x = 54
Now, we can solve for x by dividing both sides of the equation by 34:
x = 54/34
x ≈ 1.6
So, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds. However, since we need to round to the nearest tenth, the answer is 1.6 rounded to the nearest tenth is 1.5 cup.
Therefore, the correct answer is 0.5 cup.