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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ia Paper 3 5D i Solution by
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Suppose first that and are normal subgroups. For and , the commutatorlies in , because , and in , because . Since , , so and commute.
Conversely, suppose every element of commutes with every element of . Write an arbitrary as . For ,so . The symmetric calculation proves .
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