A box of chocolate bars was shared equally between Mike, Rita and Anita. If the box contains 12 bars, how many bars did Mike and Rita get (combined)?
Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer.
8
A box of 12 bars was shared equally between 3 people so each person got 12 / 3 = 4 bars.

Mike and Rita together got 4 + 4 = 8 bars.

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Thus, the answer is 8