Answer from cs61c-ew (Joo-Rak Son 16103505) for Question 1 Supposing that we do not use any offset, 53 mod 8 = 5 is the index, which occupies right 3 bits. 53 - 5 = 48 is the tag, which occupies rest of the bits (29 bits). In binary, the tag would be, 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 1000 0