The EXACT ratio is 7.7:1, but you can round it up to about 8:1
A palindrome is something that reads the same forwards and backwards.
If the number is a palindrome and it's between 300 and 400, then the
last digit must also be a ' 3 '.
So all we have left to fill in is the digit in the middle.
There are 10 possibilities for that one ... the digits ' 0 ' through ' 9 '.
So there are <em>10</em> palindromic numbers between 300 and 400.
Let

represent Jose's drived distance and

represent Rob's.
So what you need to do is to solve the equation:



So Jose drove for
6 hours before Rob caught him.