There are 2 types of tickets to attend an awards dinner the silver and gold tickets the gold tickets are 8 more than the silver. If Patrick bought 10 tickets at each level and spent a total of 140, find the price of each ticket

Answer 1

Let's assume that the price of a silver ticket is x.
The price of a gold ticket is x + 8.
Since Patrick bought 10 tickets at each level, he bought a total of 10 silver tickets at a cost of 10x, and 10 gold tickets at a cost of 10(x + 8).
The total amount spent by Patrick for all the tickets is 10x + 10(x + 8) = 140.
Expanding the equation, we get 10x + 10x + 80 = 140.
Combining like terms, we get 20x + 80 = 140.
Subtracting 80 from both sides, we get 20x = 60.
Dividing both sides by 20, we get x = 3.
Therefore, the price of a silver ticket is 3 dollars.
The price of a gold ticket is x + 8 = 3 + 8 = 11 dollars. Answer: \boxed{3,11}.