Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analytic-number-theory-and-elliptic-curves-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/b/5/c/solution

Modulo five the curve is , with good reduction because . It has one point above each of and no others, plus infinity, so its group has order four. Rational torsion therefore has order dividing four.
A nonzero rational point of order two would have and integral , so would give an integer root of . But modulo two this polynomial is , which is one at both residues. Thus there is no rational 2-torsion. Every nontrivial finite group of order dividing four contains an element of order two, so

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