Question

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

0.5 cup
0.5 cup

0.8 cup
0.8 cup

18.0 cups
18.0 cups

0.4 cup

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

To find out how many cups of almonds Luis will need, we need to use a proportion with the ratio of almonds to chocolate chips.

1/8 cup of almonds to 3/4 cup of chocolate chips

Let's set up the proportion:

x/3 = 1/8/3/4

To simplify the right side, we can invert and multiply:

x/3 = 1/8 * 4/3

x/3 = 1/2 * 1/3

x/3 = 1/6

To solve for x, we can multiply both sides by 3:

x = 1/6 * 3

x = 1/2

Therefore, Luis will need 0.5 cup of almonds.