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westhavez asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    it looks like peter piper was a packer at the pickle factory.

    How else could he have picked peppers that were already

    pickled?

    Therefore, peter piper must be a professional pickle packer.

    In that case all those estimates should be reduced by ten to twenty five percent to allow for "packed by weight, not by volume

    Source(s): standard commercial fare
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    1 decade ago

    A peck is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints.

    If Peter Piper picked a peck of fresh mini sweet peppers, he picked 139.

    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepperoncini, he picked 456.

    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled jalapenho peppers, he picked 493.

  • 1 decade ago

    He picked a Peck of Pickled Pepers

    Source(s): wiki
  • 1 decade ago

    a peck, and a peck is a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

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  • 6 years ago

    confusing problem. look on to search engines like google. that will help!

  • 1 decade ago

    A peck

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