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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper picked, If Peter Piper?

picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did peter piper pick?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    First, picked peppers aren't pickled until after picking. But, assuming that Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers - a peck is a dry measure of 8 quarts; the fourth part of a bushel, equal to 537.6 cubic inches.

    Assuming that each pickled pepper is approximately 1 inch around by 3" long = 3 cubic inches. Allow approximately 10% of the space for loose pickled peppers after packing the peck of picked pickled peppers after picking.

    That means that Peter picked 537.6 x .90= 483.84 cubic inches of loosely packed freshly picked pickled peppers with each pepper being assumed to be 3in cubed. Therefore, Peter picked and packed approximately 162 pickled peppers.

    Unless, of course, Peter pecked at some pickled peppers prior to packing, in which case Peter is a pig.

  • 1 decade ago

    As many pickled peppers picked for a peck of pickled peppers, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A peck

  • 1 decade ago

    a peck full of peppers

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  • 1 decade ago

    a peck

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He was getting a peck of peppers, but then the bird came...

  • 1 decade ago

    um a peck?

  • 1 decade ago

    9 if he knew what was good for him...i get angry when people don't return to me the number of pickled peppers i ordered.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't know, but if Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks, and three thumbtacks were thrown to Tim by Tom, did Tim catch the three thumbtacks thrown to him by Tom?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    tricky point. seek on search engines like google. this will help!

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