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First the H+ attacks the pi-bond outside the ring and forms a carbocation which resonates to the alpha position of the dimethyl groups by conjugation. One of the methyl groups gets shifted to this position by rearrangement and a proton is eliminated forming a pi-bond that aromaticizes the ring. The final product is 1,2, 4- trimethylbenzene.