SOLUTION: A chocolate chip cookie recipe asks for four and one half times as much flour as chocolate chips. If one and one half cups of flour is used, what quantity of chocolate chips would

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Question 801753: A chocolate chip cookie recipe asks for four and one half times as much flour as chocolate chips. If one and one half cups of flour is used, what quantity of chocolate chips would then be needed, according to the recipe?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Ratio of chocolate chips to flour:
%284%261%2F2%29%2F1 flour%2Fchips according to recipe.

That is same as %289%2F2%29 flour to chips.

9%2F2=%281%261%2F2%29%2Fc where c = amount of cups of chocolate chips.
9%2F2=%283%2F2%29%2Fc
%289%2F2%29c=3%2F2
c=%283%2F2%29%282%2F9%29=1%2F3 cup of chocolate chips