(Checkerboard Pattern of Asterisks) Write a program that displays the checkerboard pattern shown below. Your program must use only three output statements, one of each of the following forms:

Question

cout << "* ";
cout << ' ';
cout << endl;

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Answer 1

```
// Prints out an 8 x 8 checkerboard pattern.
#include
using namespace std;

int main()
{
int row = 8; // row counter
int side; // side counter

while ( row-- > 0 ) // loop 8 times
{
side = 8; // reset side counter

// if even row, begin with a space
if ( row % 2 == 0 )
cout << ' ';
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while ( side-- > 0 ) // loop 8 times
cout << "* ";

cout << endl; // go to next line
} // end while
} // end main
```