Tickets for a movie cost $8 for children and $12 for adults. If 125 seats were filled, and the box office revenues were $1156. How many children's and now many adult tickets were sold?
Let 
be the number of children's tickets and 
be the number of adult tickets. This gives the system of equations
. Writing the system as a matrix gives ![LaTeX: \displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 1 & 125\\8 & 12 & 1156\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%201%20%26%20125%5C%5C8%20%26%2012%20%26%201156%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 1 & 125\\8 & 12 & 1156\end{matrix}\right]")
. Using RREF gives ![LaTeX: \displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 86\\0 & 1 & 39\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%200%20%26%2086%5C%5C0%20%26%201%20%26%2039%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 86\\0 & 1 & 39\end{matrix}\right]")
. The number of children's tickets is 86 and the number of adult tickets is 39.