Solution

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Factor . These factors generate pairwise comaximal ideals, so the Chinese remainder theorem gives
The three copies of have different module structures: acts by , respectively. Thus acts on as , making a module homomorphism.
The inverse, obtained by Lagrange interpolation, is
Evaluating at recovers . Conversely, a polynomial whose three evaluations vanish is divisible by , so these maps are mutual inverses on the quotient module. Three copies with identical trivial -action would not give the required isomorphism.

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