A law firm is going to designate associates and partners to a big new case. The daily rate charged to the client for each associate is $400 and the daily rate for each partner is $1000. The law firm assigned a total of 13 lawyers to the case and was able to charge the client $8800 per day for these lawyers' services. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of associates assigned to the case and the number of partners assigned to the case. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Variables:

  Associate:  a

  Partner:  p

Equations:

  400a + 1000p = 8800

  a + p = 13

Solve:

  a + p = 13

  a = 13 - p

  400a + 1000p = 8800    

  400(13 - p) + 1000p = 8800

  5200 - 400p + 1000p = 8800

  5200 + 600p = 8800

  5200 + 600p = 8800

  600p = 3600

   p = 6 partners

  a = 13 - p

  a = 13 - 6

  a = 7 associates

Answer:

Let a​ = the number of associates designated

Let p = the number of partners designated ​

a + p = 16

600a + 1,200p = 15,000

Step-by-step explanation:

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