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 0.8 cup 0.8 cup 18.0 cups 18.0 cups 0.4 cup 0.4 cup 0.5 cup
To find out how many cups of almonds Luis needs, we first need to determine the ratio between almonds and chocolate chips. 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, we can set up the following proportion:
(1/8 cup almonds) / (3/4 cup chocolate chips) = x cups almonds / (3 cups chocolate chips)
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:
(1/8) * (3 cups) = (3/4) * (x cups)
3/8 = (3/4) * (x cups)
To isolate x, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 8/3:
(8/3) * (3/8) = (8/3) * (3/4) * (x cups)
1 = x cups
Therefore, Luis will need 1 cup of almonds. Rounding to the nearest tenth, the answer is 1 cup.