Beverly is making peanut butter-banana bread. she always doubles the amount of nuts and peanut butter chips. the total amount of chips and nuts after doubling is 4/1/2 cups.

a picture of bananas, nuts, and peanut butter-banana bread is shown. the recipe says one and a half cups of peanut butter chips, an unknown number of cups of nuts, and three very ripe bananas.

write and solve an equation to find the original amount of nuts, x, in the recipe.