\begin { gather* } 3, 9, 27, 81 ....\end { gather* } In the sequence above, the first term is 3 and each term after the first is 3 times the preceding term. Which of the following is an expression for the 200th term of the sequence?
(A)3(199) (B)3(200) (C)\(3(3^200)\) (D)\(3^200\) (E)\(200^3\)
D