Determine many blocks of main memory in direct-mapped cache

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Suppose that a computer using direct-mapped cache has 2^24 words of main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 words.

A. How many blocks of main memory are there?

B. What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache? That is, what are the sizes of the tag, block and word fields?

C. To which cache block will the memory reference (20DB63)base16 map?

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