SOLUTION: At the beginning of a game of checkers, what percent of these squares are not covered by checker pieces? There are 64 squares on a board with 24 checkers. Please help me! with

Question 99011: At the beginning of a game of checkers, what percent of these squares are not covered by checker pieces? There are 64 squares on a board with 24 checkers. Please help me! with my calculation the answer is 62 percent.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At the beginning of a game of checkers, what percent of these squares are not covered by checker pieces? There are 64 squares on a board with 24 checkers.
64-24= 40
40/64 = 62.5%
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cheers,
Stan H.
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