Richard’s average driving speed is 7 kilometers per hour faster than gracie’s. in the same length of time it takes richard to drive 292 kilometers, gracie drives only 264 kilometers. what is richard’s average speed?

Let Richard's speed be R
Let Gracie's speed be G
We use these formulas:
R=G+7
And the distance speed time relationship of
d=vt
where v is speed. Then we write an equation:
d=vt becomes
292=Rt. (Richard drives 292km in a time t at speed R)
The other equation is for Gracie:
264=Gt

Now use R=G+7 in the first equation to get
292=(G+7)t

Solving both of these equations for t by dividing by the speeds gives
264/G=t
292/(G+7)=t

Now, because they drove these distances in the same time, t, we can set these two equations equal because the t's that they are both equal to are the same value.
264/G=292/(G+7)
To get the G's on one side of the equation we first cross multiply to get
292G=264(G+7)

Multiply the 264 through the parentheses
292G=264G + 1848

Subtract 264G from both sides
28G=1848

Divide by 28 to get G, Gracie's speed
G=66.

Now recall
R=G+7
R=73 km/hr

PEMDAS helps because it tells you that the first thing to do it the P= parenthesis, so first you would do 2x6 which is 12 then you would have 5(12) the only other property to do would be M=multiplation so then solve 5x12