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Major Sanders cooked 28 1/5 pounds of original MC Sander's fried chicken. He donated 20 3/5 pounds of chicken to the homeless children. How many pounds of chicken does he have left?

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Final answer:

Major Sanders has 8 - 2/5 pounds of chicken left.

Step-by-step explanation:

Major Sanders cooked 28 1/5 pounds of chicken and donated 20 3/5 pounds to the homeless children. To find out how many pounds of chicken he has left, we need to subtract the amount he donated from the amount he cooked.

We can subtract the fractions first. 1/5 - 3/5 = -2/5. So, there is a negative 2/5 left in terms of fractions.

Next, we subtract the whole numbers. 28 - 20 = 8.

Therefore, Major Sanders has 8 - 2/5 pounds of chicken left.

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