Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/ib/paper-1/10g/c/solution

Interchange the two primes if necessary so that . By the Sylow theorems, the number of Sylow -subgroups satisfies
If , then is or . The first is impossible because . The second would imply
Since is prime, it cannot divide , so it must divide . But then forces , impossible because and are both odd. Therefore . The unique Sylow -subgroup is a nontrivial proper normal subgroup, and hence

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