Solution

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Write the cardinality of the finite group as , where is prime and . The Sylow theorems say that a Sylow subgroup of order exists; every p-group is contained in a Sylow subgroup; and all Sylow subgroups are conjugate subgroups. If is their number, then
Equivalently, for a Sylow subgroup , conjugation and the orbit-stabilizer theorem give , where is the normalizer. The containment statement is often included in the conjugacy form: every p-group lies in a conjugate of any fixed Sylow subgroup.

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