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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 ia Paper 3 8D a Solution by
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A subgroup is a normal subgroup of if for every . Define multiplication on its left cosets byTo check that this is well-defined, replace by with . Thenbecause normality gives . Thus the product depends only on the two cosets. Associativity follows from that of , the identity is , and the inverse of is . These are all the group axioms, so is a group under coset multiplication. The natural projection is a surjective group homomorphism with kernel .
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