Suppose a computer using direct-mapped cache has 2 20 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache

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Suppose a computer using direct-mapped cache has 2 20 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 bytes

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 offset fields? 

c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x0DB63 map?

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