Question 945063
The description refers to counting each tomato and pepper.


t for price of tomato;
p for price of pepper.


CRAIG:
10 tomatos and 6 peppers.
{{{10t+6p}}}, how many dollars he spent for his items.
He paid $2.38 more than Leticia paid, so .......


C for Craigs payment, L for Leticia's payment,
This system of equations will help find the amount that each paid for his or her items.
{{{system(C+L=14.62,C-L=2.38)}}}


LETICIA:
8 tomatos and 4 peppers.
{{{8t+4p}}}, how much she paid for her items.


Using the payment expressions for Craig and Leticia, and keeping the payment variables L and C, we have the system:
{{{system(10t+6p=C,8t+4p=L)}}}


These two separate systems are really ONE system of four equations in four unknowns, but easier to solve the C & L system first; and then use the values found for the items cost system to solve for {{{t}}} and {{{p}}}.


I did not finish solving this, only presented a logical process and described it.    ( {{{C=8&1/2}}} )