Systems of equations word problem?

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A school will be opening a new high school in the fall. The number of underclassmen (9th and 10th graders) must fall between 500 and 600 (inclusive), the number of upperclassmen (11th and 12th graders) must fall between 400 and 500 (inclusive), and the number of students cannot exceed 1000.

a. Let x represent the number of underclassmen and y represent the number of upperclassmen. Write a system of inequalities that models the situation.

Graph the solution to the system of inequalities in part a

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