Jada bought 8 pineapples and 5 peppers which altogether cost €65.
On another occasion she bought 4 pineapples and 10 peppers which cost €70.
Assume the cost of pineapples and peppers stays the same. How much does one pineapple cost? How much does one pepper cost?
Hint: The answers are whole numbers.
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One pineapple costs €5.
One pepper costs €5.
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