In a city baseball league the Tigers are 1/2 games behind the pirates and the Pirates are 4 games ahead of the Cubs. How many games separate the Tigers and the Cubs? 4 behind pirates

To find out how many games separate the Tigers and the Cubs, we need to calculate the total number of games that separate them by considering the given information step by step.

First, we know that the Tigers are 1/2 games behind the Pirates. This means that if the Pirates have 4 games, the Tigers have 3.5 games.

Next, we are given that the Pirates are 4 games ahead of the Cubs. So if the Pirates have 4 games, the Cubs have 0 games.

To determine how many games separate the Tigers and the Cubs, we need to subtract the number of games the Cubs have from the number of games the Tigers have.

Tigers' games - Cubs' games = 3.5 - 0

Therefore, the Tigers are 3.5 games ahead of the Cubs.