Solution

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Use for the dihedral group of order twelve and write each element uniquely as or , . The classification of subgroups of a dihedral group organizes the complete list: rotational subgroups are cyclic, and a subgroup containing a reflection is generated by its rotational part and one reflection. The individual lists and quotients follow below.

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