The document discusses solving systems of linear equations with three variables. The standard method is elimination, where one extracts a system of two equations with two unknowns from the original system of three equations. One solves the system of two equations and plugs the answers back into the original system to find the third variable. This process generalizes to systems with N equations and N unknowns by repeatedly extracting and solving smaller systems until reaching a system of two equations. An example problem demonstrates applying this method to find the price of hamburgers, fries, and sodas given three equations relating purchases to total costs.