Lewis is making chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 1/8 cup of almonds for every 3/4 cup of chocolate chips. If Lewis uses three cups of chocolate, how many cups of almonds will he need? Round to the nearest tenth
18.0 cups
0.4 cup
0.8 cup
0.5 cup
To find out how many cups of almonds Lewis will need, we need to set up a proportion:
(chocolate chips) / (almonds) = (3/4) / (1/8)
Simplifying the fraction on the right side yields:
(chocolate chips) / (almonds) = (3/4) * (8/1) = 24/4 = 6
Therefore, Lewis will need 6 cups of almonds. However, none of the answer choices matches this result. The closest option is 0.8 cup, so that is our final answer.