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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 2 11E b Solution by
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Consider all ideals containing and disjoint from the nonempty multiplicative subset . This collection is nonempty because it contains . The ascending chain condition for the Noetherian ring gives a maximal member : otherwise repeatedly choosing a strictly larger member would give an infinite strictly ascending chain of ideals. Since is nonempty and misses it, .
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