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 0.5 cup 0.5 cup 0.4 cup 0.4 cup 0.8 cup 0.8 cup 18.0 cups
To find the number of cups of almonds Luis needs, we can set up a proportion:
18 cups almonds / 34 cups chocolate chips = X cups almonds / 3 cups chocolate chips
Simplifying the proportion, we get:
(18/34) = (X/3)
Cross-multiplying, we have:
3 * 18 = 34 * X
54 = 34X
Dividing both sides by 34, we get:
X = 1.58
Rounding to the nearest tenth, Luis will need approximately 1.6 cups of almonds.