Question

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 $600 and the daily rate for each partner is $1200. The law firm assigned a total of 10 lawyers to the case and was able to charge the client $7200 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. Graphically

Answer 1

600a+1300p=8900

a+p=9

Explanation:

Let a=the number of associates designated

Let p=the number of partners designated

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System of Equations:

600a+1300p=8900

a+p=9

Answer 2

The system of equations representing the situation are

600a + 1200p = 15,000

a + p = 16

with solutions

p = 9

a = 7

Explanation: