After selling 160 copies of the program to a school play, an usher had fewer than 40 copies left. how many copies of the program did the usher have originally?
Less than 200.
To solve this problem, you need to subtract the number of copies sold from the original number of copies the usher had. Let's denote the original number of copies as "X". According to the information given:
X - 160 < 40
To find the original number of copies, we can rearrange the equation:
X < 40 + 160
X < 200
So, the usher originally had fewer than 200 copies of the program. However, we still don't know the exact number.