For a direct-mapped cache design with a 32-bit address, the following bits of the address are used to access the cache. We assume that each word has 4 bytes.   How many words of data are included in one cache line?

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 For a direct-mapped cache design with a 32-bit address, the following bits of
the address are used to access the cache. We assume that each word has 4 bytes. 

 How many words of data are included in one cache line?

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