Answer: 76 child tickets were sold that day.
Step-by-step explanation:
You need to set up a system of equations.
Let be "c" the number of child tickets sold that Wednesday and "a" the number of adult tickets sold that Wednesday.
Then:
[tex]\left \{ {{a+c=173} \atop {9.40a+5.70c=1345.0}} \right.[/tex]
Using the Method of Elimination, you can multiply the first equation by -9.40, then add both equations and finally solve for "c":
[tex]\left \{ {{-9.40a-9.40c=-1626.2} \atop {9.40a+5.70=1345.0}} \right.\\..................................\\-3.7c=-281.2\\\\c=\frac{-281.2}{-3.7}\\\\c=76[/tex]