Tickets for a movie cost $5 for children and $9 for adults. If 83 seats were filled, and the box office revenues were $527. 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 & 83\\5 & 9 & 527\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%201%20%26%2083%5C%5C5%20%26%209%20%26%20527%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 1 & 83\\5 & 9 & 527\end{matrix}\right]")
. Using RREF gives ![LaTeX: \displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 55\\0 & 1 & 28\end{matrix}\right]](/equation_images/%20%5Cdisplaystyle%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Bmatrix%7D1%20%26%200%20%26%2055%5C%5C0%20%26%201%20%26%2028%5Cend%7Bmatrix%7D%5Cright%5D%20 "\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}1 & 0 & 55\\0 & 1 & 28\end{matrix}\right]")
. The number of children's tickets is 55 and the number of adult tickets is 28.