Mr. Mighty can break any concrete block into exactly eight pieces with one punch. He can then take any of those pieces and smash it into eight pieces again. The task is to determine how many punches it takes for Mr. Mighty to smash a block into 2024 pieces.
Step 1: The first punch creates 8 pieces. Step 2: The second punch creates 88=64 pieces. Step 3: The third punch creates 648=512 pieces. Step 4: The fourth punch creates 512*8=4096 pieces. Step 5: Since 4096 is more than 2024, it takes 4 punches. Here you go hope this will help you
