SOLUTION: After selling 12 copies of the Express, a newspaper vendor had fewer than 75 copies left. What is the number of copies the dealer had originally

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Question 1155019: After selling 12 copies of the Express, a newspaper vendor had fewer than 75 copies left. What is the number of copies the dealer had originally
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N - 12 < 75


N < 75 + 12 = 87.


ANSWER.  The dealer had fewer than 87 copies of the Express originally.