Brandon has 28 pennies, 18 dimes, and 108 nickels.
Let's start by writing equations:
pennies = 10 + dimes,
nickels = 6 x dimes.
You know Brandon used a number of pennies ending in either 3 or 8, since he has a total of $7.48.
I didn't know how to proceed from here, so I had to guess and check lol.