Sheet # 213/George Washington Carver
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1. George Washington Carver was born in 1861. How old would he be if he were alive today?
2. George loved to take care of plants. Day after day, he walked in the woods to study the plants 3 times per day. How many times did he walk in the woods to study plants in 1 week? 4 weeks? 10 weeks?
3. George was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri. If he traveled to Alvin, Texas at 60 miles per hour, and the distance to Alvin was 620 miles, about how long would it take him to get there?
4. At the age of 10 Carver left home to attend school. To support himself, he worked as a farmhand, a cook and a laundry helper. If he worked 25 hours a week and made 10 cents an hour, how much money did Carver make in a week? 4 weeks? 10 weeks?
5. Finally, at the age of 30, George Washington Carver entered college. He studied plants and farm science. If Carver worked 3 hours starting at 6:00 a.m. then from there went to school for 6 hours, and after that he studied for 5 hours, what was the time Carver finished so he could relax for the evening?
6. Carver received a Master of Agriculture degree in 1896. How many years have passed since he first began school in the year 1871 at the age of 10?
7. George Washington Carver was the first black student to graduate from college out of 420 students. If next year there were 1/4 black students that graduated out of 420 students, how many would be black?
8. George Washington Carver developed a system of crop rotation. He planted peanuts one year, followed by a crop of cotton the next year. If he planted 12 rows of peanuts with 8 peanut plants in each row, how many peanut plants did he have in all?
9. Carver came up with more than two dozen uses for his peanuts such as ink, shaving cream, rubbing oil, and dry coffee to name a few. If he made $5 per item, how much did Carver make for the two dozen items altogether?
10. Later in life Carver came up with 325 uses for the peanut, 100 products from the sweet potato, and 60 uses for the pecan. About how many total uses did Carver come up with for all of the plants, rounded to the nearest 100?
11. George Washington Carver never did marry. Money and things did not mean much to him. Carver gave his entire savings, over $30,000 to science before passing away. How much would he have if he kept ¼ of his savings?
12. Diamond Grove, Missouri now known as Diamond, Missouri has a national monument dedicated to Carver. His museum is a perfect square of a total perimeter 4,000 m. What would each side of his museum measure?
13. George Washington Carver died in 1943. If he was born in 1861, how old was he when he passed away?
14. In 1973, George Washington Carver was the second Black American to be elected to the New York University Hall of Fame. How many years ago was that from today?
Extra Credit:
15. Suppose Carver were here today and he wanted to graph the sales of different brands of peanut butter. Jif sold 5 million jars in 1999, Skippy sold 7 million jars and Reese's sold 4 million jars. Draw a graph of your choice below (bar, line, number, or pictograph) using the information above to represent the sales of different brands sold.
16. From looking at this graph, what brand sold the most?
17. How many more jars did Skippy sell than Jif in 1999?
18. If Skippy were to sell twice as many jars in 2000 as they did in 1999, how many jars will they have sold altogether?
19. Jif sold 5 million jars in 1999. How many would they sell in 2000 if they wanted to sell 1/2 more?
Answers for George Carver worksheet
1) Depends upon the year ( 2005, 2006, etrc).
2) 21 days, 84 days, 210 days
3) about 10 to 11 hours
4) $2.50/week, $10. $25
5) 8 p.m.
6) 25 years
7) 105 students
8) 96 plants
9) $120
10) 500
11) $7500
12) 1000 m
13) 82 years
14) 27 years for year 2000
15) graph
16) Skippy
17) 2 million
18) 21 million
19) 7.5 million