Needing help, the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture asked your teacher, “If a chicken-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in a...

Needing help, the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture asked your teacher, “If a chicken-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how many days will it take one chicken to lay a dozen eggs?”