Solution

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Invertible matrices are closed under multiplication, contain , have associative multiplication, and have inverses by the adjugate formula over the field . The first column can be any nonzero vector and the second any vector outside its span, so
For , the matrix has order three. There is no element of order six: , whose element orders are .
For , is a proper normal subgroup. For , the order-three subgroup in the copy of is proper and normal.
In , take
where is the subgroup of order five. This semidirect product has order and is nonabelian because a nontrivial diagonal element does not commute with translations.

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