Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/iii/paper-101/3/b/solution

False. In the polynomial ring over a field, take
The ideal is a maximal ideal, with quotient ring . Also
In this last ring, an element with nonzero constant term is a unit, and an element with zero constant term is a multiple of and has square zero. Thus every zero divisor is a nilpotent element. This is equivalent to being a primary ideal: a zero product in the quotient ring with one nonzero factor forces the other factor to be nilpotent. Its radical of an ideal is , so is -primary.
However, , so . Moreover while , since every polynomial in has no term of total degree one. For every , , so . Hence

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