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How many pounds of cotton could be processed a day with a cotton gin?
50 pounds
How many pounds of cotton could be separated each day when the cotton gin was used?
a thousand
How many pounds of cotton could Whitney's cotton gin produce in a day?
50 lbs a day
Why were so many slaves needed on a plantation in the South?
Cotton had to be picked by hand and the invention of the cotton gin allowed for more cotton to be processed. Cotton is a versatile material and can be used by many industries especially textile and clothes.
How many pounds of hand cleaned cotton could be cleaned a day?
It has a significant dependence on the number of people cleaning. I imagine that worldwide it would be millions of pounds per day.
What is the difference between cotton knit and cotton?
The difference is in your vocabulary. Cotton exists in many forms, from the raw botanical lint inside the boll to fine cotton thread or yarn. Cotton knit is simply one form of cotton that has been processed by knitting.
What is a slave plantation?
a slave plantation is a place where the slaves used to work. many of these were sugar and cotton fields, in which the slaves would pick the sugar canes and cotton from the plant to later be processed.
How many tons of cotton grown per acre?
The cotton yield forecast is 685 pounds per acre, down 367 pounds from last year's yield. See the related link below.
How much cotton could a slave pick per day?
A slave would have to pick an average of 200lbs of cotton each day. A bole of cotton is 40 grams or .08lbs, so on average they would pick 2500 boles of cotton. I'm not a historian so this many vary because of different circumstances. This is just an average number.
A cannery processed 605 pounds of strawberries in 3.5 hours The cannery processed 2100 pounds in 10 hours How many pounds of strawberries can be processed in 12 hours?
605 = 3.5 * w + f (w = pounds per hour, f = fixed overhead time) 2100 = 10 * w + f 2100 - 605 = 6.5 w w = 230 f = --200 Equation is: Amount processed = (230 lbs/hour * hours) - 200 Amount processed in 12 hours = 12 * 230 - 200 2560 pounds. (which is 2 x 230 or 460 lbs more than in 10 hours) -MathSmart from Hillsborough, NJ)
8000 pounds of cotton is equal to how many tons of steel?
8000 lbs = 4 tons no mater of what
Why was the cotton gin important?
It makes it easier to pull the seeds out of cotton. Before the cotton gin, it took about a day to produce one pound of cotton without the seeds. With the cotton gin, people could produce many pounds of cotton and all they needed to do was pick the cotton and put it in the cotton gin to clean it.
