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
0.8 cup
0.8 cup
0.4 cup
0.4 cup
18.0 cups
18.0 cups
0.5 cup
0.5 cup
To find the number of cups of almonds Luis will need, we can set up a proportion using the relationship given in the recipe.
Let "x" represent the number of cups of almonds Luis will need.
Using the proportion:
18/34 = x/3
Cross multiplying, we get:
34x = 3 * 18
34x = 54
x = 54/34
x ≈ 1.588
Rounding to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds.
To find out how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we can set up a ratio using the information from the recipe. According to the recipe, for every 34 cups of chocolate chips, there are 18 cups of almonds.
Therefore, the ratio of chocolate chips to almonds is 34:18.
If Luis is using 3 cups of chocolate chips (we'll call this "x" in the ratio), we can set up the ratio as:
3 cups of chocolate chips : x cups of almonds
Using cross-multiplication, we get:
3 / 34 = x / 18
Simplifying this equation, we find:
3(18) = 34x
54 = 34x
Dividing both sides by 34, we get:
x = 54 / 34
x ≈ 1.588
Rounded to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds.
To find out how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we need to use the given ratio between almonds and chocolate chips. The recipe states that for every 34 cups of chocolate chips, 18 cups of almonds are needed.
First, calculate the ratio of almonds to chocolate chips:
18 cups of almonds / 34 cups of chocolate chips = 0.5294 (rounded to four decimal places)
This means that for every 0.5294 cups of chocolate chips, we need 1 cup of almonds.
Since Luis is using 3 cups of chocolate chips, we can now calculate the amount of almonds he will need.
3 cups of chocolate chips * 0.5294 cups of almonds/1 cup of chocolate chips = 1.5882 cups of almonds
Rounding this to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds for his chocolate chip cookies.