What is a quickest way to find inverses of functions of two variables?

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Suppose I have

$X_1 = aY_1+bY_2$

$X_2 = cY_1+dY_2$

How is the quickest (or most efficient way ) to find the inverse functions?

The current way I am doing it is attempting to solve for Y1 in the first equation and plug it into the second equation.

But there is there some kind of a matrix trick or a fast way to solve these kind of problems?

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Here is the matrix

$$\begin{bmatrix}a&b\\c&d\end{bmatrix}$$

You should first invert this matrix. Assume the inverse of this matrix is

$$\begin{bmatrix}r&t\\g&h\end{bmatrix}$$

Then you will write

$$y_1=rx_1+tx_2$$ and $$y_2=gx_1+hx_2$$