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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 10G c Solution by
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Interchange the two primes if necessary so that . By the Sylow theorems, the number of Sylow -subgroups satisfiesIf , then is or . The first is impossible because . The second would implySince 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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