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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/ia/paper-3/5d/i/solution

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03

No. In

S_{3}

, take

x = (12)

and

y = (123)

. Their orders are two and three, but

x y

is a transposition and has order two.

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