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Use an Inverse Matrix to Find the Solution to the System

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Use an inverse matrix to find the solution to the system.
-Two phone companies compete for customers in a city. Company 1 retains 3/43 / 4 of its customers and loses 1/41 / 4 of its customers to Company 2 . Company 2 retains 5/65 / 6 of its customers and loses 1/61 / 6 to Company 1 . If we represent the fraction of the market held last year by [ab]\left[ \begin{array} { l } a \\ b \end{array} \right] , where aa is the number the that Company 1 had last year and bb is number that Company 2 had last year, then the number that each company will have this year can be found by t] following matrix equation.
[AB]=[3/41/61/45/6][ab]\left[ \begin{array} { l } \mathrm { A } \\\mathrm { B }\end{array} \right] = \left[ \begin{array} { l l } 3 / 4 & 1 / 6 \\1 / 4 & 5 / 6\end{array} \right] \left[ \begin{array} { l } \mathrm { a } \\\mathrm { b }\end{array} \right]
If Company 1 has A=90,000\mathrm { A } = 90,000 customers and Company 2 has B=198,000\mathrm { B } = 198,000 customers this year, how many customers did Company 1 have last year?


A) 76,000 customers
B) 222,000 customers
C) 72,000 customers
D) 216,000 customers

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