Imprecisely defined systems of linear equations play vital roles in various scientific and engineering applications. In this study, impreciseness is considered in a fuzzy sense. A system of linear equations with crisp coefficients and fuzzy unknowns is established and a new and straightforward method for solving this fuzzy system using the well-known concept of linear combination is proposed. In this approach, the system is first converted into an equivalent interval form, and thereafter, using the linear combination approach, a crisp representation of the system is obtained without loss of generality. Subsequently, by solving the corresponding crisp system using two different sets of linear combination coefficients, a final solution is obtained. To validate the proposed method, various example problems were solved and compared.