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Can somebody explain in a simple way why, talking about representations $$3\otimes3\otimes3=1\oplus8\oplus8\oplus10~?$$

Here $3$ and $\bar{3}$ are the fundamental and anti-fundamental of $SU(3)$, in this case.

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\begin{equation} \boldsymbol{3}\boldsymbol{\otimes}\boldsymbol{3}\boldsymbol{\otimes}\boldsymbol{3}= \boldsymbol{1}\boldsymbol{\oplus}\boldsymbol{10}\boldsymbol{\oplus} \boldsymbol{8}^{\boldsymbol{\prime}}\boldsymbol{\oplus}\boldsymbol{8} \end{equation}

We talk about this because it explains the structure of a number of baryons in Particle Physics made from three quarks : 1 singlet - 1 decuplet - 2 octets, that is 27 baryons in total.
I refer to my answer in the following link for more details :

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1091189