Three sketches. The right and left are my attempts to draw a single carrot.
The middle sketch is a bushel of carrots, which when purchased (in the United States) is 50 pounds of carrots. Officially, a bushel is 64 U.S. pints (roughly 35 liters) in the U.S. and 8 imperial gallons (roughly 36 liters) in Britain. A U.S. pint (roughly 0.5 liters) is equal to 2 U.S. cups. A bushel is 128 cups (roughly 31 liters.) A bushel of carrots, then, is approximately 256 carrots if it is estimated that 2 medium carrots is equivalent to 1 U.S. cup (roughly 0.25 liters.) Carrots weight about 2.15 ounces (roughly 61 grams) per carrot. So a bushel (256 carrots) is approximately 550 ounces (roughly 15,600 grams) or about 35 pounds (roughly 16 kilograms). So, if you go to purchase a bushel of carrots, the store (or farm, whatev) will generally give you 50 pounds (roughly 23 kilograms) of carrots. If you made it this far through this post, congrats… you are as nerdy as I am.
Good luck eating 256 carrots.
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