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 $700 and the daily rate for each partner is $1700. The law firm assigned 4 more partners than associates to the case and was able to charge the client $21200 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 ​

Answer 1

Answer: 700a+1700p= 21200

p=a+4

Explanation:

Let a = the number of associated designated

Let p= the number of partners designated