Question

A cookie recipe at a bakery uses three cups of peanut butter chips for every two cups of chocolate chips that it uses. given the variables below which equation correctly relates the amount of chocolate and peanut butter chips needed to make a batch of cookies?

x: cups of chocolate chips needed for one batch
y: cups of peanut butter chips needed for one batch
A. y=1.5x
B. x= 5y
C. x=1.5y
D. y=5x​

Answer 1

C. x = 1.5y

This is the answer

As, 3y/2x = 1.5y/x

So, by this ratio we get,

x = 1.5y