Since n = 20, just substitute in 2n³ – n² But since you asked, you must not know how to do that, so: Everywhere you see an n in 2n³ – n², write (20) instead, like this: 2(20)³ - 20² Next do the exponents (20)³, which means to multiply 20×20×20 = 400×20 = 8000 Also, we do the other exponent (20)² which means to multiply 20×20 = 400 So in 2(20)³ - 20² we write (8000) in place of the (20)³ and 400 in place of the 20² 2(8000) - 400 Then we multiply 2×8000 and get 16000. So we write 16000 in place of the 2(8000) 16000 - 400 Finally we subtract and get 15600 So it takes 15,600 operations to multiply two matrices of size 20. Edwin