Tickets for a movie cost $6 for children and $12 for adults. If 108 seats were filled, and the box office revenues were $864. 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 & 108\\6 & 12 & 864\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%201%20%26%20108%5C%5C6%20%26%2012%20%26%20864%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 1 & 108\\6 & 12 & 864\end{matrix}\right]")
. Using RREF gives ![LaTeX: \displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 72\\0 & 1 & 36\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%200%20%26%2072%5C%5C0%20%26%201%20%26%2036%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 72\\0 & 1 & 36\end{matrix}\right]")
. The number of children's tickets is 72 and the number of adult tickets is 36.