SOLUTION: You go to the food store to buy five cans of crushed tomatoes and 2 cans of tomato paste. The cost was $4.60. Unfortunately, you only had $4.40. You purchase, instead, four cans of

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Question 1080280: You go to the food store to buy five cans of crushed tomatoes and 2 cans of tomato paste. The cost was $4.60. Unfortunately, you only had $4.40. You purchase, instead, four cans of crushed tomatoes and three cans of tomato paste at a cost of $4.10. How much did the crushed tomatoes and tomato paste cost?
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c, price of CRUSHED tomatoes
p, price of tomato PASTE

This part is not important for solving the problem: Unfortunately, you only had $4.40.


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Starting for Elimination Method
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One can of crushed tomatoes costs $0.80.

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One can of tomato paste, $ 0.30.