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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ia Paper 3 5D b Solution by
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No. The alternating group has order twelve, and six is a proper divisor of twelve, but has no element of order six. Its nonidentity elements are eight 3-cycles of order three and three double transpositions of order two.
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