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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 16 lawyers to the case and was able to charge the client $11800 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 of equations.