Solution

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False. Realize the symmetries of a square as a dihedral group of order eight, generated by and , with and . Take . Its double cosets are precisely
These are disjoint and exhaust the eight symmetries. There are three double cosets, and . This proves that double-coset counts need not divide group order. Specifying the order-eight realization avoids competing conventions for the notation of a dihedral group.

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