Solution

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Mod-three Galois representation of an elliptic curve is the representation
in this case. Twisting by the quadratic character replaces it by . Thus has a rational point of order three exactly when contains a nonzero vector satisfying
for every : the line is a one-dimensional Galois subrepresentation with character .
The two-dimensional representation has at most two distinct one-dimensional characters among its Jordan–Hölder factors. Therefore at most two quadratic characters , and hence at most two rational isomorphism classes of twists, can have a rational point of order three.

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