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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 ia Paper 3 5D ii Solution by
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The remaining proper subgroups areTheir orders are respectively one, three, six, four and six. The order-four groups are Klein four-groups; the last two are dihedral groups of order six, isomorphic to .
For completeness, if contains a reflection, write with . Any other reflection differs from a chosen by an element of this rotational subgroup, so with specified modulo . The choices give respectively the whole group, the two order-six groups, the three order-four groups and the six reflection groups already listed. This proves there are no omitted subgroups.
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